14 DAY TRIAL // “The Google Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.360.4 for Windows and Mac and 5.0.360.5 for Linux,” Anthony LaForge, Google Chrome program manager, has announced. According to Google’s guy, the new beta release includes an integrated Adobe Flash Player Plug-in. In other words, Chrome for Mac now fully supports Flash.
“We're integrating Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.95 (10.1 beta 3) with Google Chrome so that you don't have to install it or worry about keeping it up-to-date,” LaForge writes. “See the blog post on the Chromium blog for more details,” he adds. Continuing with the post, the Google Chrome Program Manager explains that users must enable internal-flash to their command line or shortcut for starting Google Chrome, in order to use the bundled Flash Player plug-in.
The new Chrome release (5.0.360.4) also includes a basic plug-in manager. “The about:plugins page now lets you disable any plug-in from loading on all web pages,” LaForge outlines further on. “See the Known Issues section: this doesn't work in all cases yet if you already have Adobe Flash Player for Windows Firefox, Safari, or Opera installed,” he warns fans of the web browser.
There are also some known issues that still plague Chrome. However, this time around, the focus is on the Windows version of the browser.
“On Windows, if you have Adobe Flash Player for Windows Firefox, Safari, or Opera installed, the Flash plug-in will still work in some cases even if you decline the license agreement (when using --enable-internal-flash) or disable the Flash plugin from about:plugins,” LaForge explains. “We're working on it,” he tells the Chrome fanbase, speaking on behalf of the entire development team behind Chrome.
“If you disable (or enable) a plugin on about:plugins, your change does not take effect until you restart Google Chrome,” goes the description of another known issue, presumably also on Windows, since LaForge doesn’t specify a platform. The list of problems currently in need of attention ends with, “There is no bundled Adobe Flash Player plug-in for 64-bit Linux.”