Oh, I know: groundbreaking stuff - you can see why I rushed to tell you about it! As with the recent Firefox 85 release, this change has been a longtime coming, but is notable given Chrome used to come with a (safer) version of the Flash plugin preinstalled.Įlsewhere the browser adds some new password-protecting features, drops the remnants of FTP support, and introduces a few new experimental flags, including a tab search one - go to chrome://flags/#enable-tab-search in a new tab to enable it.įollow our guide to learn how to install Chrome on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and above, or go fetch the relevant download link for your system from the Google Chrome website. Still, there is one thing we do know: it no-longer includes Adobe Flash. Google is pretty vague about what actually changes release-to-release, while mainstream tech sites (seem to) report on every nut twist in Chrome’s development branches that I lose track of what’s where!

If you use Chrome on your Linux system you should already have the update (assuming you update your system routinely like we do).īut despite once running a Chrome blog I find Chrome a tricky thing to write about. Google Chrome 88 went live this week with some modest changes.

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