14 DAY TRIAL // The most recent version of Google Chrome officially abandons Adobe Flash Player entirely, only a few weeks after the software was officially retired.
The demise of Flash Player isn’t new, and Adobe actually announced the EOL back in 2017, promising a smooth transmission to a world without Flash.
Since then, Adobe and browser makers out there have been working on retiring Flash Player gradually, with Google too embracing a gradual demise of the software in Chrome browser.
Version 88 officially drops the latest tidbit of Flash Player from the browser, essentially making it impossible to load such content from now on.
FTT support also removed
Google has also announced that FTP support is no longer available in Chrome 88.
“Google Chrome 72 and later removed support for fetching document subresources over FTP and rendering of top level FTP resources. Navigating to FTP URLs results in showing a directory listing or a download depending on the type of resource. A bug in Google Chrome 74 and later resulted in dropping support for accessing FTP URLs over HTTP proxies. Proxy support for FTP was removed entirely in Google Chrome 76,” the company said in an announcement.
“The remaining capabilities of Google Chrome’s FTP implementation were restricted to either displaying a directory listing or downloading a resource over unencrypted connections. In Chrome 77, FTP support was disabled by default for fifty percent of users but was available with flags. In Chrome 88 all FTP support is disabled.”
In case you’re wondering why the support for FTP has been pulled from Google Chrome, it’s because almost nobody is using it, with Google claiming it recorded very low usage data in the last couple of years.
Needless to say, all these changes concern not only the Windows version of Google Chrome, but also the macOS and Linux builds, so the FTP support is dropped on all platforms where the browser is currently available.