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Google’s Chrome 76 arrives,

blocking Flash in its entirety

and stealthing incognito mode

By 2020, the plan is for Flash to be entirely removed from Chrome. BY MARK HACHMAN

f you update Google Chrome today, with it two additional key features: a simpler
you’ll be able to witness a milestone in installation of Progressive Web Apps, or

real time: the next step in the slow death PWAs; and a new way for Chrome to block a
I of Flash. website’s ability to detect whether Chrome is

Google Chrome 76 takes the in incognito mode. The latter
process of eliminating Flash feature may thwart websites
a step further: instead wishing to detect

of simply blocking whether a browser
Flash objects, has visited the site
Flash simply isn’t before, a tactic

allowed to used to prevent
load. You can users from

still turn it on reading
via the settings protected
menu, though content

each site must without logging
explicitly be in or subscribing.

given permission Progressive
(go.pcworld.com/ Web Apps, a web-
perm) to run Flash. By based service designed

the end of 2020, Flash to mimic the look and feel of
should be removed entirely by a local app, are now easier to install,

Chrome, according to the Chromium thanks to a button now available in the
road map. “omnibox” or address bar. To the user, PWAs
As VentureBeat notes (go.pcworld.com/ appear fast and flexible, and are easily updated

blok), the arrival of Chrome 76 also brings without the need to visit an app store.

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