Google Chrome browser plugins
Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers for surfing the Internet. This is due to its functionality and stable operation. Google Chrome In addition to extensions, it uses a whole list of plugins that allow you to watch videos, listen to music, open files in a browser window, and play online games. Chrome supports the following plugins:
- Adobe Flash Player – is automatically integrated and activated in the browser, and its updates are included in general Google Chrome updates.
- Adobe Reader - a tool for viewing PDF files directly in the browser window, without having to download and open the file in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
- Java – a programming language that is used in website development. If the browser works without the java plugin, then some sites are displayed incorrectly and not in full.
- Windows Media Player – a tool for viewing web content.
- Real Player - media player for playing video and audio materials.
- QuickTime is a media player from Apple that allows you to view QuickTime media audio and video files.
- MicrosoftSilverlight is a plugin that also allows you to properly display websites and play multimedia video and audio files.
In order to view all the plugins that are connected to Google Chrome, you need to enter “chrome://plugins” in the address bar and press “Enter”.
In our case, there are 10 connected modules. Among them there are also those that were not listed above:
- Chrome Remote Desktop Viewer – provides the ability to remotely access your computer desktop.
- Chrome PDF Viewer – a plugin that opens PDF documents in a browser window.
- iTunes Application Detector – a plugin for working with Apple devices and data.
- Native Client – with the help of this plugin it becomes possible to make web applications of higher quality: good sound and graphics with high resolution.
- Ace Stream P2P Multimedia Plug-in – a plugin that works as a live broadcaster, server node. With its help, you can watch videos on a P2P network without downloading it to your computer.
After opening all the plugins in the Chrome browser window, the user has the opportunity to configure their use: disable or always allow their use.
To view detailed information about all plugins, you must click the “Details” button. After this, a full description of all plugins will open: name, description, version, location, type, Mime types. Now you know how to manage Google Chrome browser plugins, I hope this will be useful to you for further use of the browser.
