Η Google κυκλοφόρησε σήμερα τον Chrome 88, καταργώντας μόνιμα την support for Adobe Flash Player and ending an entire internet era.
Adobe Flash officially reached end-of-life (EoL) on December 31, 2020, when Adobe stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content playback in Flash.
Google is not the only company that stops supporting Flash. The decision was made with Adobe and other browser makers such as Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft in 2017. Apple and Mozilla have already stopped supporting Flash and Microsoft plans to end support later this year. month.
At present, according to web technology research site W3Techs, only 2,2% of today's websites use Flash, down from 28,5% in early 2011.
But today's version of Chrome 88 comes with more features, removals, bug fixes and updates security. One of the most significant changes is the removal of support for accessing FTP (ftp://) links from within Chrome.
With Chrome 88, Google also completed a project it launched last year. With today's release, Chrome will now block some file downloads over the HTTP protocol.
One instance in which Chrome will stop downloads is when a user accesses a websiteσελίδα that starts with HTTPS, but the file it's trying to download comes from a URL that starts with HTTP. Chrome considers this case "mixed" and "unsafe" and Chrome 88 will completely block the download to protect users.