July 13th, 2010 
Marvin Blase Don't get me wrong, I'm using Google Chrome for some months now and definetly wouldn't change to Firefox or the like anymore. Mainly for reasons of speed as no browser ever reached Chrome in that.
But as someone using Flash everyday Google Chrome has some really annoying bugs / missing features which definetly have to be fixed / added soon. I'm going to tell some of them - if anything mentioned has changed already or if you know a good alternative to it please let me know.
The buggy buttonMode
Honestly this bothers me most. Having no handcursor in Flashmovies if they are embedded with a transparent WMODE (why is this mode always bugged in any browser?) is like having no street names and noone knows where to turn in. The handcursor is essential for realising there is a link I can click on. If this one is missing the whole movie checks buggy. At the moment (v 5.0.375.99) this bug is not fixed and as far as I know the current beta comes with it as well.
Firebug, where are you?
Either I don't get it or Chrome's ressource monitor does not track files which Flashmovies load or call at runtime. Personally I need this feature to see if my files are loaded correctly, how & when they are loaded and so on. Besides POST-Requests and their responses can be awesomely tested & fixed with Firebug.
Object-Embed? Oh yea, but Chrome prefers the IE alternative
Wow. This really took me ages to fix. I've used an older method of embedding my SWF, namely with two different Object-Tags, one for IE, one for the rest. You might still know this embedding from SWFObject, when registering a SWF and then embedding it this way:
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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
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codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
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width="300" height="120">
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<param name="movie" value="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf">
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<param name="quality" value="high">
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<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
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<!--[if !IE]> <--> ...
Funnily every browser - except Chrome & IE - is using the second part (the NON-IE) of this embedding method. Can someone tell me why? As I don't use this embed anymore I actually don't mind too much but I'm interested why. :)
Cache
Although Chrome has a much better Cache-Management than Firefox or IE has there are still some reaaally stubborn Flashfiles in Cache sometimes. And Chrome is missing a "hard reload" button which is equal to CMD / CTRL + F5 in Firefox. So there is no way around clearing your Cache with CTRL + SHIFT + DEL.
So this is mainly not anything really keeping my hands off Chrome but I would be chuffed if these issues will be fixed / developed soon.
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Cache:
ctrl+shift+del shows me a option of clearing the cache. Likewise you can hit ctrl+F5 to reload the page with a empty cache. Alternativly you can hold ctrl and click on the reload button in the interface which will do the same.
I am concerned about the embedded Flash Player (beta/ dev channel at least, perhaps already the regular version) as I don't know how that one will respond to debugging content for which one usually has the debug player from adobe installed.
Hey Hendrik,
yea - it says "Reload Page ignoring cached content" on SHIFT / CTRL + F5. The thing is.. try it with a SWF. It won't refresh :/ This is what I meant with stubburn Flashfiles. Only the CTRL+SHIFT+DEL -> Clear Cache button does so.
Concerning the embedded Flash Player: I have read that there's no big deal installing another version later on.
hy,
Firebug, where are you?
here you find a light version "firebug" for chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bmagokdooijbeehmkpknfglimnifench
enjoy
Hey,
true, but this light version doesn't catch in- & outgoing files nor POST-requests and responses. So for outlining some divs etc. it´s cool but considering a Flashdeveloper's view it's not enough :)