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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:27AM (#461561)

    Netsurf?

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday February 03 2017, @09:50AM

    by t-3 (4907) on Friday February 03 2017, @09:50AM (#462301)

    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.