Now that Computerworld, and all of parent company IDG's websites, have eliminated user comments, you can get in touch with me privately by email at my full name at Gmail. I guess it depends on your definition of 'date'. On days like today, when Adobe released a new copy of Flash, this can leave you vulnerable. 105 and each claimed that 'Your Chromebook is up to date' despite using Flash version 24.0.0.186 which was released back on December 13, 2016. Chrome can take a while to update its embedded copy of the Adobe Flash Player. When I first wrote about this last year, I noted that Flash can not be updated this way on Chrome OS. If all went well, the version should now be 24.0.0.221.

If you look closely, the status goes from 'component downloading' to 'update ready' to 'Component updated.' It literally takes a second. If the version is anything other than 24.0.0.221, it needs to be updated.Ĭlick on the gray 'Check for Update' button and the update happens in a flash (sorry). In the browser address bar. Look for the Adobe Flash Player in the list of components. You can, however, force Chrome to update Flash by entering The usual method of forcing a Chrome update (Help -> About Google Chrome) on Windows and OS X/macOS may or may not update Flash. I mention this now, because Adobe released a new version of the Flash player today, one that fixes 13 bugs, many of them critical. For years now, the Chrome browser has reported that it was up to date, even when there was an old copy of the Flash Player embedded in the browser.

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