Google issued a beta release of Chrome for Android earlier today. The browser provides support for modern Web standards and includes a number of compelling features that aren't available in the Android's default browser. One noteworthy Chrome desktop feature that isn't included in the mobile port, however, is the integrated Flash runtime.

Adobe has issued a statement confirming that Chrome for Android does not support Flash content. The company also indicated that it does not plan to work with Google to add Flash support to the new mobile browser. Adobe will, however, continue supporting Flash in the current default Android browser.

"Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. 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," wrote Adobe's Flash Platform product manager Bill Howard.

ARS Technica has the details HERE!

Yea, I smelled it also... smells like...failure.

From the start, Google's Safe Browsing API was designed to spot malicious web pages so users wouldn't get trapped in them. Google identifies these sites through its own algorithms and user notification.

Google Chrome isn't the only browser to do this. FireFox and Safari rely on the lists made available in the Safe Browsing API, and Microsoft has its Application Reputation with Internet Explorer, which essentially does the same thing.

This week, NSS Labs, a firm that specializes in the testing of security systems, found something in its monitoring that just didn't feel right.

According to NSS Labs, during the most recent period of testing, Nov. 21, 2011 through Jan. 5, 2011, they observed what appears to be a significant change in malicious website protection when contrasted with historical data. According to their report, "Did Google Pull a Fast One on Firefox and Safari Users?", Chrome's protection rate rose to more than 50 percent before falling back down to 20 percent, while at the same time the Firefox and Safari block rate remained stuck at 2 percent and then suddenly jumped to 7 percent on the same day Chrome's protection precipitously dropped. 

Read the entire article...

No kidding... even in beta, those with ICS are flocking to it. 

Chrome for Android — the long-rumored, oft-requested grand unification of Google's mobile and desktop browsing technologies — has just been announced today, and it's being made available immediately as a beta release for phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich. Though Android's existing browser has long shared bits and pieces with desktop Chrome (notably WebKit rendering and Google's V8 JavaScript engine), the release of Chrome for Android represents a more thorough synergy: they're both now based on the open-source Chromium Project, which means it'll be easier for Google to advance the products in better lockstep with one another — features, capabilities, fixes, and so on. 

Read the rest and then... if you have ICS, get it from the Android store. (click readmore to see a video of the new browser)

Hey, I grabbed a couple of them for myself so if they are out when you get there... I'm sorry...

From a session saver to a social media assistant to a simple in-browser image editor, these extensions provide a variety of useful tools for the growing legions of Chrome users.

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