[...] App Store rules don’t allow third-party software runtimes. Yes, Chrome for the desktop is based on WebKit, but it’s Google’s own fork of WebKit, and Google’s own JavaScript engine. Chrome for iOS would have to use iOS’s system standard WebKit, and the slower non-Nitro JavaScript engine.

[...] if you need to revert back to a prior version of Flash when using Safari 5.1.7 or higher, you can re-enable the plug-in by going to the Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins (Disabled)/ folder and moving the "Flash Player.plugin" file from this folder into the Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder (the one that does not have "Disabled" in its name).
After you have moved the plug-in to the active plug-ins directory, then relaunch your Web browsers and you should be good to go. Safari should only check once for the latest version of Flash once and not continue to disable the plug-in every time you use the browser.

The launch of Chrome for iOS on the App Store could be as soon as this quarter, according to Macquarie Equities Research (via GigaOm). Its debut is seen as igniting a modern browser war on mobile devices, similar to the "Browser Wars" of the late 1990s between Internet Explorer and Netscape.

All third-party browsers for iOS must be based on WebKit, Apple's open source browser engine. The existing versions of Google Chrome, available for Mac, Windows and Android, are already based on the WebKit layout engine.

Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter said Chrome for PCs has been a "home run" for Google, as it has "significantly" reduced desktop traffic acquisition costs for the search giant.

He expects that Google will launch a major marketing campaign to hype the debut of Chrome for iOS.

Recently, all of the ongoing discussion around responsive images just got real: a solution is currently being discussed with the WHATWG. And we're in the thick of it now: we're throwing around references to picture and img set; making vague references to polyfills and hinting at “use cases” as though developers everywhere are following every missive on the topic. That's a lot to parse through, especially if you're only tuning in now—during the final seconds of the game.

Jeremy Zawodny writes about Richard Stallman's method of browsing the web--without a web browser; 2008 Jan 29.