Google Chrome plugins will soon be obsolete

TECHi's Author Scarlett Madison
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Scarlett Madison
Scarlett Madison
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Google doesn’t think that we need plugins on our Chrome browsers. They will be eliminating support for them starting at the beginning of the year.

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As web technologies have matured, there’s less of a need for browser plug-ins to add features for video playback and hardware access to the browser. That’s what Google thinks — so too does Mozilla — and it’s the main reason that Chrome will cease to support the old Netscape Plug-In API starting on January 1, 2014.

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