Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome, Reports Claim (ghacks.net)

An anonymous reader shares a Ghacks report: 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. You can use it, among other things, 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.Further report on BetaNews.

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Dear Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Firefox,

Please do NOT copy this feature.

Signed,
All four of us who still use Firefox.

Re:This is how it starts

[denis-The-menace]

RE: And worst of all, there is no UI for finding and disabling stealth plug-ins that get installed by other apps.

Great!
Hidden Chrome plugins: the New Browser Helper Objects