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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 jmorris on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:32PM
Isn't this basically a non-story? Plugins are going away period. Chome is removing them, Firefox is removing them, IE/Edge is removing them. They are dying, Netcraft confirms it. So they are either moving the features into the browser, converting them to extensions or dropping them. But because Flash simply refuses to die like everyone keeps assuming, because when Apple tells you to die you are supposed to die, Dammit!, they can't quite finish the job. And the built in PDF viewers in both major browsers suck balls, can't forget that important detail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:40PM
What is this "Flash" that you speak of? I haven't seen such a plug-in in any browser I use at home or work in years. Web pages I'm interested in all work fine. Any page that doesn't work I'm not interested in, or I send an email and ask why their website is broken.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:14PM
Other things that are going away:
- Personal computers
- computers without additional control software
- consoles without DRM
- offline videogames
- videogames whose server you can easily host
- internet based on open protocols
- stable APIs as a design goal
- familiar UI as a design goal
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