Hi John, I'm now in Win 8 and just want to say thanks for pointing that 'relaunch mode' option under the settings button, never knew about that.
Anyway, when I went from the desktop Chrome mode to the Windows 8 mode I got a message telling me that my Adobe flash player that I have installed in Chrome does not work in Win 8 mode, which I kind of guessed because none of the flash parts of the webpage were showing. So I disabled Adobe flash player and enabled the Pepper flash player and all the flash bits of the webpage came back to life. Hope that clears up the mystery John.