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My point is when there's a critical Flash update, Chrome doesn't notify me ASAP. So my Chrome might be open for days with a vulnerable Flash without me knowing that it's time to restart. This is why I check About Chrome almost daily (kind of an annoying obsession).

By comparison, on Windows and OSX when there's a Flash update, the user will be notified when the update arrives.

So Chrome delivers the Flash patch really fast, but then doesn't notify users that they need to get it.

And Adobe and Apple deliver the Flash patch slowly, but the user is notified.

Neither of these situations is ideal. What I want is fast arrival of the patch, plus notification. I guess I will look for a Chrome bug on this.



I dug around in the Chrome bug database a bit and learned.

Windows Chrome now has better update notification: http://crbug.com/27941

In April the update notification was further improved: http://crbug.com/71202#c24

OSX Chrome still needs better update notification: http://crbug.com/45147

There are different UI challenges on the Mac that have delayed the improvement there. No wonder I've been missing it.




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