Google Chrome has learned to clean flash cookies

For about a year now, Google has been supplying Adobe Flash with its browser, but it’s good that the company is trying to minimize the damage from its vulnerabilities to the maximum: Flash is placed in the sandbox and automatically updated. And now another good news: Google Chrome, with the help of Mozilla developers, finally learned how to clean cross-browser flash cookies (even if they entered the system through another browser).

A new feature has just appeared in the developer build and will soon be transferred to the normal build.

Moreover, a similar option will soon appear in other browsers.

The corresponding function is in the menu Wrench → Tools → Clear browsing data . It is called “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” and includes flash cookies.
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It also has the ability to automatically erase flash cookies with each closing of the browser. Other plugins also accessed this option through the NPAPI ClearSiteData API (with Flash Player 10.3).

Flash cookies are known to be an exceptionally intrusive and hard to remove thing. To get rid of the so-called Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) used to have to install special programs like Privacy Keeper or constantly go to the Adobe site. Now it does the browser itself.

Now, if Google had still learned to deal with self-healing cookies , it would have been great.