quicktime plugin missing from Google Chrome

Grant

Chrome is not alone in its move toward the HTML5 STANDARD - see KT's wikipedia reference - Firefox has also done so by "disabling all 'PLUG-INs' by DEFAULT" - not "Extensions" (AdBlockPlus, QuickTranslate, etc.)

If Chrome still allows Flash, etc., it is merely a matter of time.

It is up to to content providers(websites) to adopt HTML5. The problem is not Safari's, Chrome's, Firefox et al

IMHO, these moves are necessary to make the content creators/providers do what they must eventually do without delay. They have known it was coming for years.

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QuickTimeKirk wrote:

If your own page code doesn't work it's up to you to change it. If your browser no longer supports page code that calls a browser plug-in then you'll have to switch to view the content.

ChitlinsCC wrote:

It is up to to content providers(websites) to adopt HTML5. The problem is not Safari's, Chrome's, Firefox et al.

I completely agree.

In fact, I have been a proponent of HTML5-based media embedding since the beginning. Yes, it is up to content providers (including Apple) to adopt HTML5, but browser developers also have a responsibility to their users to not deliberately break things. I use Chrome because it is stable, fast, and Safari/WebKit is no longer updated by Apple for Snow Leopard. FireFox is just a hot mess in terms of interface and I can’t stand using it.

Fine. Remove support for plugins

However, a little warning before auto-updating everything would have been appreciated.

Disagree with you COMPLETELY.

A browser is a program for accessing content via the HTTP/HTTPS protocol.

If a video file (quicktime) is hosted on a server somewhere, I expect that if I access that file directly with browser, it should play it. HTML5 requires there be some webpage hosted to play that file, and that's just dumb. The browser should be able to say ".mov"--- does the OS have something that can read that container / codec? If so.. here you go, playing it...

When I updated the QuickTime plugin on my PC, I encountered sound problems on some of the videos I had created years ago; that is, there was video but NO sound. The newer videos on this website were not adversely affected. For those who may want to examine this for themselves, the URLs in question are:

http://visionarypictures.com/fmcommercials.html and http://visionarypictures.com/fmcommercials2.html

A friend of mine who is a retired sound engineer came up with a possible answer. The older videos had a very low sampling rate of 22 hertz. The newer videos had sampling rates of 33 or 44. My friend thinks that the latest version of the QuickTime plugin may simply not recognise the videos with low audio sampling rates. Does this sound plausible?

Google Chrome has officially ended support for NPAPI plugins.

More Info: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033?hl=en

I am also having this issue, Quicktime and Silverlight have seemed to have disabled themselves. They work fine in Firefox.

This is annoying, as Google have discontinued the 32bit version of Google Chrome, they no longer push updates to it.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4660488?hl=en

Yeah its still annoying, I wasnt able to access parts of Xbox.com because silverlight doesnt work either. I dont get why Apple Trailers arent html 5 video now, would make more sense.

Silverlight is working fine for me... at least I'm able to use Netflix without a problem. You had me scared there for a minute haha

Disregard my previous comment, it turns out Netflix exclusively uses HTML5 for the latest versions of Chrome now.

Chrome has removed support for all browser plug-ins.

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

Both you (this is an old thread) and Chrome are late to the party > HTML5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia