Flash will be removed from browsers and also operating systems such as Windows. Chrome shipped with its own Flash component and that component is now gone so that Flash content cannot be loaded in Chrome anymore. The biggest change in Chrome 88 is that Google removed Adobe Flash from the browser.
CVE-2021-21117 received a rating of critical, the highest severity rating, several ratings of high, the second highest rating. The Chrome Releases blog lists some of the security fixes of Chrome 88 (only those reported by third-parties). A restart of the browser is required to complete the update. The current version is displayed on the page that opens, and Chrome will download the new version to install it. Either load chrome://settings/help in the Chrome address bar or select Menu > Help > About Google Chrome to run a manual check. Desktop users may run a manual check for updates to update Chrome directly Google rolls out updates over time to the entire population and that may lead to delays before the new version becomes available. The update is distributed to all systems automatically.
