I can tell you exactly how, as many others already have in this and other discussions: flash is a plugin; h.264 support is native browser code. Google bundles

I can tell you exactly how, as many others already have in this and other discussions: flash is a plugin; h.264 support is native browser code. Google bundles flash for one reason only: to make sure that users aren't given the chance to shoot themselves in the foot by not upgrading. Everyone downloads the flash plugin because sites require it. It has 98% penetration (perhaps less now with more people using iDevices, but still very high). But people never update the plugin, which is a major security issue. Google has solved that problem in chrome. And you are mistaken that flash is part of the internal workings of chrome. You can disable it: see about:plugins. And there is no need to update it since chrome takes care of that for you.