• racerxonclar (edited 8 years ago)
    +3

    Yeah, this exactly. As soon as it said that Chrome had dropped plugin support...and clearly saw extensions were still running for me, I knew there was a terminology difference being incorrectly harped on.

    EDIT: Actually, wait, I'm an idiot. Even I'm thinking of add-on instead of actual plugins.

    • idlethreat
      +2

      The only plugin that I was aware of to cause user problems was Oracle(TM) Java(TM). Basically, Chrome stopped using NPAPI, a good number of people freaked whenever their Java enterprise apps started dying. I'm assuming that Oracle has released a PPAPI plugin by now. Hopefully. The number of browsers supporting NPAPI just decreased by one.

      "Extensions" and "Plugins" are a murky sort. Here's a quick blog post on the differences between them.