![]() This means that an attack on the plug-in should work across every browser and operating system. This is aggravated by the fact that everyone has the same Flash or Java plug-in, no matter what browser or operating system they use. Security: Browser plug-ins have proven to be more insecure than browsers themselves, and Flash and Java are some of the biggest attack vectors on the web.RELATED: Java is Insecure and Awful, It's Time to Disable It, and Here's How Here are some of the biggest problems with them: The Unity plug-in provides 3D graphics support, the Google Voice and Video plug-in gives Google’s Hangouts and Talk services access to a system’s microphone and webcam, and so on.īrowser plug-ins have proven to be a problem for the web. Other plug-ins were also created to fill holes in web browsers. Microsoft developed Silverlight released it in 2007 to provide streaming media and animation support - it was basically Microsoft’s Flash competitor. Adobe’s Flash player expanded to include support for video playback as well as animations and other features. This slow browser development created big opportunities for plug-in developers. RELATED: Why Do So Many Geeks Hate Internet Explorer?įor over five years, browser development for most web users had stagnated. IE 7 and even IE 8, released 8 years later in 2009, were a fairly small improvements over IE 6. The next version of Internet Explorer, IE 7, was released in 2006, over five years later. ![]() As Microsoft had “won” the browser wars and were on top, they decided to pull their developers off Internet Explorer and stop developing IE entirely. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001 around the time Windows XP was originally released. Worse yet, browser development eventually came to a standstill. At the time, browsers were fairly immature. Browser plug-ins were very necessary when they were created.
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