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Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the next-they-will-kill-kenny dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ese002 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:59PM

    by ese002 (5306) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:59PM (#461299)

    My gut level guess given that most plugins are crap is they're gutting them entirely or the UI of going to a URL is too weird for the average (L)user and somehow they ripped out the old UI before pushing in the new UI.

    Oh, you mean like the way Gnome removed the old session save/restore code before pushing out the new way? We're still waiting on the new code, BTW. It's been years.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:24PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:24PM (#461346)

    One suspects Google will prove more competent that GNOME/RedHat. Just saying. If nothing else their decisions to avoid RedHat "New Tech" in both Android and ChromeOS demonstrates technical competence. I wonder though, do they use systemd in their server farms?