Windows 10 news recap: Microsoft Edge caught running Flash on Facebook without permission, Google Chrome adds Windows Mixed Reality, and more

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Published on February 24, 2019

published on February 24, 2019

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Welcome back to our Windows 10 news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system.

Microsoft Edge runs flash on Facebook without your permission

Microsoft’s web browser, Microsoft Edge, has been found to be running Flash on Facebook and many other websites without requesting permission from the user, despite Flash not supposedly being able to run without permission, for privacy and security reasons.

The default Flash whitelist in Edge (https://t.co/JxStUIxByE) really surprised me. So many sites for which I'm completely baffled as to why they're there. Like a site of a hairdresser in Spain(https://t.co/50xdJvzksA)?! I wonder how the list was formed. And if MSRC knew about it.

— Ivan Fratric (@ifsecure) February 19, 2019

Microsoft’s new Office app for Windows 10 is now available for all users

A new Office app has been launched in the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. It acts as a central hub to access all of your other Office apps, similar to office.com.

Google Chrome gets Windows Mixed Reality support, available now for Canary testers

Google Chrome is adding support for Windows Mixed Reality. Users of Google Chrome’s Canary builds can now make use of the newly-added support, This allows virtual reality within Google Chrome to be used with Windows Mixed Reality devices.

Microsoft’s Windows Timeline feature comes to Google’s Chrome browser

Microsoft has launched a new extension for Google Chrome. The extension, called Web Activities Chrome, adds support for Windows Timeline to Chrome, helping bring all of your Chrome browsing history to Windows Timeline.

That’s it for this week. We’ll be back next week with more Windows 10 news!

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.