This week I took the Chromebook into the "wild." I took it to work. As I waited for the meeting to start I started watching a youtube video. Occasionally I would switch to another tab and perform another task, e.g. checking my mail. When I did, the audio got choppy.
The youtube progress indicators were right on top of each other. The red line is the current position and the gray line is the progress of the download.
Hmmm. Must be that the facility's bandwidth was marginal.
Nope. What could it be? Processor?
Bingo! Incredible. 92% of a processor (remember it's dual-core) was being used to render the youtube video.
So I come home and begin to read my RSS feeds. Up near the top was Brian Kreb's post on yet another Flash update. Chrome browser on Windows 7 is prompting me to update it to v23.0.1271.64 m.
So I go over to the Chromebook. No prompt to update but maybe it's so slick it did it in the background.
Sorry Charlie. Build Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012. Specifically the Flash plugin is 11.5.31.2 on Chrome browser on Windows 7 and 11.3.31.518 on the Chromebook even a day later.
ChromeOS updated yesterday to a November 6 build (why did it take 4 days?) but it still had Flash 11.3.31.518. And not a word on the Chrome Blog.
C'mon Google!
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