Petrovic Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 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. Google removes Plugin controls from Chrome This goes hand in hand with a change in Chrome 56 that saw plugins getting re-enabled on restart automatically, and without you being able to do anything about that either. Technically with the latest changes to the plugins handling code all plugins will be in the "enabled" state as seen on the chrome://plugins page. To sum it up: chrome://plugins is deprecated in Chrome 57. Only Flash and the PDF Viewer can be controlled via the Chrome Settings. All other plugins cannot be controlled anymore by the user. Disable plugins like Flash or Widevine are re-enabled in Chrome 56 after restarts. You have to dig deep on the Chromium bugs website to find information on those changes. This bug highlights that chrome://plugins is deprecated, and that plugin control access has been removed from Chrome with the exception of Adobe Flash and PDF Viewer. One issue when it comes to disabling Flash is that Chrome handles Flash content differently depending on where it was disabled. If you disable Flash on chrome://plugins, Flash is completely disabled. If you use the Settings instead, you get a square asking whether you want to enable Flash to play content instead. Users may overcome this by enabling this flag: chrome://flags/#prefer-html-over-flash This bug highlights that Google considers all plugins but Flash and the PDF Viewer, as integral parts of the Chrome browser, and that it does not want users to disable those. All other plugins (NaCL and WideVine) are considered integral part of the browser and can not be disabled. Temporary Solution The only option that is left is to delete the plugin folder on the local system. The caveat is that it gets added again when Chrome updates. The location is platform specific. On windows, it is located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\[Chrome Version]\WidevineCdm\. Close Chrome, delete the folder, and restart the browser. The plugin is no longer loaded by Chrome. you do need to repeat this whenever Chrome updates though Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 30, 2017 Administrator Share Posted January 30, 2017 This is quite wrong decision by Google, I feel. Just because you do not want people to do things does not mean you take away it's control from the expert users I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Complete freedom to do what Google wants. Google knows perfectly what you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 If Firefox ends up...a Chrome-clone... Is Firefox going to do the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 i test Chromium 58 it still have chrome://flags/ were you can enable or disable a bunch of stuff Flash in Chromium for windows has too be installed its not like Google Chrome and besides you can still go too chrome://flags/ and turn it off. . You can download Chromium with or without Widevine its open source just like you can download Firefox EmE free . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Now You can test also Google Chrome 58.0.3000.4 Dev. NB! If someone wishes to make a separate topic, please to do it. Google Chrome 58.0.3000.4 Dev x86http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/zb2eyzakcsq6gauw7t9mzaeoe99f9fyzp0s8epn7m6731cqegr2cischf91saudujko7cygxn66wqkjge9rmpj3hwwtw0ed7w5r/58.0.3000.4_chrome_installer.exe MD5 - 46736398A2870747CE124F2083844328 x64http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/9tmz5xlhis4gbeogtfceoj4jwwc0mb9ksr7cw4ne1p0e515ph3t4l38k4i619m9n3v8q3t29zwxtcp1zx3wj3rorexxi3xquqx1/58.0.3000.4_chrome_installer.exe MD5 - 7A49343EB65796A2E5BBE0A4A9C1497A Portable: x86 https://mega.nz/#!MhZ33T6K!r6Tk9wb_-fnBdzIdZ8e4fd7yKjr4GPA1R5Df77tnOYg x64 https://mega.nz/#!N1xiHB7I!PbKDtYWO6De9znrfBYoO8_xerr0T0OFrxxCQZDSYbEQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clubhouse Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 On 31/01/2017 at 2:44 PM, pc71520 said: If Firefox ends up...a Chrome-clone... Is Firefox going to do the same? Firefox 52.... http://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/03/firefox-52-how-to-keep-on-plugins/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 18 hours ago, clubhouse said: Firefox 52.... http://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/03/firefox-52-how-to-keep-on-plugins/ Yeah, I read about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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