Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser without any support for Adobe Flash Player. Flash reached its official end of life on December 31, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash. Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month, reports ZDNet. According to web technology survey site W3Techs, only 2.2 per cent of today s websites use Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 per cent figure recorded at the start of 2011.