Users of Google Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows machines were automatically upgraded Thursday to a new browser version that addresses several security bugs and features a fully integrated Flash multimedia player for the first time. Google Vice President of Engineering Linus Upson believes browser users will benefit in several different ways from Chrome’s integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology for the web.
“When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player as well as automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism,” …

Google has added the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec to the latest developer-channel build of its Chrome browser. The codec will be used with the new HTML5 standard to embed videos directly in to the browser, without such need for a flash plug-in.
Google acquired the VP8 codec as part of its $124.6 million purchase of video compression outfit On2 Technologies this year in spring. You can get the latest developer snapshot of Google Chrome and read more about the codec integration on the Google Chrome dev channel: located here