"We completely strip each of the browsers' processes of all their privilege to access the rest of the computer, " says Linus Upson, Google's engineering director.

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Linus Upson, Google's vice president of engineering, told the BBC that this had already encouraged more than 500 schools across 41 US states to "deploy" Chromebooks to their students.

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Eventually, when users download Chrome, they will also get the latest version of Flash, rather than needing to install it separately, according to a blog post by Linus Upson, a vice president of engineering at Google.

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