It hit Windows platforms in Chrome 19 and Linux in Chrome 20. The OS X version of Chrome is actually the last to receive the PPAPI version of the Flash plug-in. It had previously used the older NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard. With Chrome 23, Google has introduced a 'sandboxed' version of the Adobe Flash plug-in, which helps prevent its use in exploits that could allow harmful code to be run without the user's knowledge.Ĭomputerworld reports that Google engineers rewrote the Flash plug-in to comply with its own PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard. The fastest web browser on the Mac just got a little safer.
