Security News > 2021 > January > Google Chrome 88 released: RIP Flash Player and FTP support

Google has released Chrome 88 today, January 19th, 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements and the long-awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player.

Chrome 88 is now promoted to the Stable channel, Chrome 89 is the new Beta version, and Chrome 90 will be the Canary version.

Google has removed FTP support from Chrome due to its low use and lack of support for encrypted or proxy connections.

Since 2014, Google has wanted to remove support for the FTP protocol in Chrome as it was determined to only be used by ".

With the release of Chrome 80, Google began deprecating FTP support with the addition of a new "Chrome://flags/#enable-ftp" flag that controls whether FTP support is enabled or not.

The initial goal was to disable FTP support by default in Chrome 81, but on April 9th, Google enabled it again to make sure there was no problem accessing content on FTP sites during the pandemic.

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