Adobe's Flash Player seems to stay longer with Chrome's built-in support

You all would be aware of the scope of the new open web technologies which posed a serious threat to the future of Adobe's Flash Player. While the debate was going on, things started to look really bad for Adobe System's Flash when Apple announced that they won't include Flash support in iPad. It was looked upon as the end of an era for Flash(and a beginning of HTML5) but everyone was still eagerly waiting for Adobe's move to save their technology. And it came out in the form of Google's announcement of adding Adobe Flash Player support in Chrome.

First of all, I don't hate Adobe's Flash, they were the one who made the flash technology available on all platforms. But because of its buggy and crashing nature, open web had to move on towards open standards, giving birth to HTML5 and CSS3. But lets face the facts, there is still a whole lot of Flash content on web. We can't just switch everything with HTML5 in a day, probably that's why Google opted to go for Flash player plug-in, inspite of Apple's completely dropping its use.

Google's support for Adobe Flash Player is actually part of a bigger project which aims to renovate the browser plug-in interface, enhancing the security and performance. This next generation API is known as Platform independent NPAPI, Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface. The three major contributors of this project are Google, Adobe and Mozilla.

If this project succeeds in the development of a safe plug-in technology, it will probably remove one of the biggest problems with the flash player giving it more stability and years in the web market than anticipated with the current craze for HTML5.

Google's Chrome Browser was already supporting Flash Player but this recent collaboration can be looked upon as a future deal for better support in Chrome Browser's later versions and ofcourse Chrome OS.

And interesting point stated in CNET'S blog post by Stephen, one of the reasons that google wants this change is to let its Native Client Technology use Flash and other plugins. The Native Client technology gives a hardware acceleration boost to web applications, and letting Flash and other plug-ins use this technology will be beneficial for Google's Chrome OS.