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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: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:14PM
Debian has a fork that is a solid 4: Ubuntu.
Also a potential 2: I was actually tempted to mention Devuan as an example of a project being on the way to example #2, given that they have zero stable releases over quite a long period of time for development (since 2014, and they have not got jessie/8 going yet; it's at 1.0 Beta2. Meantime Debian is in freeze for stretch/9...)
They do have interim and beta releases though, still showing some work, so not in category 2. Yet.