Google has just released version 88 of Chrome. This update marks the
definitive withdrawal of the Flash plug-in but also that of the FTP
links.
On December 31, Adobe officially canceled support for its
Flash player born in 1996. Since January 12, all Flash content has been
blocked, and Web browsers are gradually removing the plug-in.
Chrome in turn removes the Flash plug-in
Admittedly, the end of
Flash Player is not strictly speaking something new, but Google Chrome
having more than 65% of market share of Web browsers around the world,
this withdrawal is highly symbolic. Note, however, that Apple, Microsoft
and Mozilla have already removed the player from their browsers.
ZDnet
US, which reports the information, explains that currently, only 2.2%
of websites are still at least partially based on Flash. This rate has
fallen by more than 25 points in ten years.
More specifically,
80% of Google Chrome users loaded a page containing at least one Flash
module per day in 2014; four years later, they were down to 8%.
It
must be said that technology has been supplanted by developments in Web
standards and in particular CSS3 and Javascript, which are now favored
for making content dynamic.
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The end of ftp: // links
At the same time, Google has also
decided to withdraw support for FTP access, a process started with
Chrome 86 on the Canary and Beta distribution channels. In version 87,
the FTP accesses were already disabled by default but the user still had
the choice to modify this behavior by going to the advanced parameters.
This time Chrome 88 completely blocks ftp: // links.
Users who
have made backups on a remote server will therefore no longer be able to
access their files from Google Chrome but will have to use dedicated
FTP software.
To justify this total withdrawal, Google explains
that the browser does not support FTPS type secure access. In view of
the low use of these links, the company does not wish to invest more and
thus prefers to withdraw its support.
Greater restriction on downloads
Google Chrome 88 also boosts
protection by further blocking certain file types from downloading when
served through an HTTP link and not an HTTPS link. With Chrome 85, the
browser no longer allowed to recover executable files of type .exe or
.apk. In the following version it was the same for the .zip or .iso
archives.
Chrome 87, for its part, blocked potentially
compromised documents such as .pdf or .docx files. This time, Google
Chrome 88 prevents downloading multimedia files (.png, .mp3).
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