“Using available hardware to decode video offloads tasks from the CPU, improving video playback performance, reducing system resource utilization, and preserving battery life,” Adobe Systems notes.īefore today’s build was available, the latest downloadable stable version of Chrome was 5.0.375.125.

This version contains an updated version of the Flash plugin.”Īs users would expect, Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 includes Flash enhancements noted recently by Adobe, including H.264 video hardware decoding.Īccording to the makers of the popular Flash Player, version 10.1 introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding “to deliver smooth, high quality video with minimal overhead across supported mobile devices and PCs.” Jason Kersey, of the Google Chrome team, reports: “Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Adobe has recently confirmed that H.264 hardware acceleration support has been built right in the standalone player. Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Stable channel for Mac, Linux, and Windows, Google has announced, mentioning that this version updates the Flash plugin available with the browser.