Chromium Blog: Bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome
As a first step, we’ve begun collaborating with Adobe to improve the Flash Player experience in Google Chrome. Today, we’re making available an initial integration of Flash Player with Chrome in the developer channel. We plan to bring this functionality to all Chrome users as quickly as we can.
more on blog.chromium.org
It could be either a sign of Google's stance in the holy war against Flash, or just a pragmatic move towards improving the state of plugins in the browsers.