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/
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:16PM
I use Pale Moon as my standard browser, even do I have to use Chrome and even Edge sometimes to test something or other.
Pale Moon is not perfect but at least it remains true to the original Firefox concept and as far as I can tell, it doesn’t phone home or does other nasty privacy-busting shit. It supports almost all plug-ins for Firefox, so you can have NoScript, Firebug and other stuff function as expected.
Bottom line: better than most alternatives.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:29PM
See, I found it couldn't use my most important add-ons, the high-end ad blockers, which basically made me drop it.