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Google made a change in Chrome 57 that removes options from the browser to manage plugins such as Google Widevine, Adobe Flash, or the Chrome PDF Viewer.
If you load chrome://plugins in Chrome 56 or earlier, a list of installed plugins is displayed to you. The list includes information about each plugin, including a name and description, location on the local system, version, and options to disable it or set it to "always run".
You can use it to disable plugins that you don't require. While you can do the same for some plugins, Flash and PDF Viewer, using Chrome's Settings, the same is not possible for the DRM plugin Widevine, and any other plugin Google may add to Chrome in the future.
Starting with Chrome 57, that option is no longer available. This means essentially that Chrome users won't be able to disable -- some -- plugins anymore, or even list the plugins that are installed in the web browser.
Please note that this affects Google Chrome and Chromium.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/29/google-removes-plugin-controls-from-chrome/
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:41PM
Seamonkey (Netscape) is still the best, always has been. You can stop looking for alternatives.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:48PM
Agreed. I was using palemoon for a while, but it was using a lot of ram, so I switched to Seamonkey, it's faster, more stable, and has more features. I tried using several of the command line driven browsers, but I didn't get into any of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:27AM
Netsurf?
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(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday February 03 2017, @09:50AM
Netsurf, surf, and a few other odd ones with hard to remember jumble-of-letters names (do w3m and links count? they're command line driven and text mode, but also fully featured with tabs and such). Maybe if I linked a bookmark file into zsh completions it would be smoother, but as-is I couldn't get them to "flow" right for me. The minimalism in UI and resource use, and good fit into a tiling window manager attracted me, but in the end it was too much work to do all that typing to pull up sites when I could fire up seamonkey.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:16PM
While I agree that SM is one of the best and am posting from it. Its days are numbered. There's a shortage of developers, as happens with volunteer driven projects, and it is based on Gecko. Besides the horribleness of keeping up with all the changes that Mozilla does lately, and the fact that Mozilla developers have been ordered to spend no company time at all on SeaMonkey or Thunderbird, there's the problem that once Mozilla drops support for stuff such as extensions, xul, xpcom, etc, SeaMonkey is fucked. They may switch to the 54ESR branch for a while, and 54ESR may be supported for more then a year as it is the branch that will continue to support XP but the writing is on the wall. Mozilla does not want users, and SeaMonkey is a user.