Telegraph: Chrome for Android "won't get Flash"

Google 's Chrome for Android browser will not support Flash, Adobe has confirmed. Google announced the beta version of Chrome for Android last night. The long-awaited release replaces the default Android browser for those users who are on the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Google's mobile operating system. The beta version does not support Flash and Adobe confirmed today that Chrome for Android will never run Flash. Ina blog post, Adobe's Bill Howard wrote: "As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content." When Apple launched its iPhone without support for Flash, Adobe was critical and even took out adverts complaining about the lack of Flash support in the iPhone. Adobe claimed that Apple was trying to protect its App Store. Steve Jobs, Apple's late CEO, denied that claim ina post on his company's website. He said Adobe Flash was not an open technology, was unstable and hada negative effect on battery life. He also pointed out that there were alternative technologies for things such as web video. Last November, Jobs appeared to have been proved right when Adobe said it was abandoning development of mobile Flash. The company said it would focus on HTML5 for mobile devices and work with Flash "where it can have the most impact for the industry". Announcing Chrome for Android, yesterday, Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president for Chrome and apps, emphasised the speed and simplicity of the new mobile browser. He said that Google had built Chrome for Android "from the ground up" with mobile in mind. He added: "We reimagined tabs so they fit just as naturally ona small-screen phone as they do ona larger screen tablet. You can flip or swipe between an unlimited number of tabs using intuitive gestures, as if you're holdinga deck of cards in the palm of your hands, each onea new window to the web." Chrome for Android supportsa single sign-in feature that allows users to log-in and sync bookmarks between mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. The mobile browser will also automatically load any tabs that you had open on the desktop version of Chrome. That move is likely to encourage more Android users to adopt Chrome on their desktop and laptop computers. At the end of last year Chrome overtook Firefox to become the second most popular web browser.
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