"We completely strip each of the browsers' processes of all their privilege to access the rest of the computer, " says LinusUpson, Google's engineering director.
LinusUpson, 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.
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 LinusUpson, a vice president of engineering at Google.