In case anyone else like me didn't know this- As of of Chrome version 45 NO plugins, no addons and only extensions somewhat work--sort of. I ran into this when I found out that this laptop I use for work updated and suddenly the java powered app didn't work. The laptop is nice because it's light and it's powercell seems to last all day.
I did some digging just to see if some setting I had somehow hit or what have you was the gremlin. Nope from what i gather as of Chrome v44 on quite a few addons and plugins were given the boot. If anyone particular cares about the history or work arounds that might work good news is good ol fation FireFox quietly picked up some od that slack adding some Chrome specific addons to work not quite as zippy but works. WHY did they do all that: It seems like the source of all the issues is Oracle's JavaPlugin. It'd seem the to companies don't play well, much less with others. I don't know who said who had cooties LOL. From: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=363053 http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/google-chrome-stable-35-for-linux.html and https://community.oracle.com/thread/3700718 SPECULATIVE QUESTION: Why does firefox seem perfectly ok with Java(Plugin) while Google's Chrome team and Apples Safari folks said no?
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