Will Chrome OS Allow Third-Party Plugins?
Posted on 26. Dec, 2009 by Daniel Cawrey in News
So, back to yesterday’s topic of Silverlight, Windows4all
and how it relates to Chrome OS.
Because Silverlight is a file that is downloaded as an executable, when I fired up Chrome OS I wasn’t able to do anything with it. So that means for now, there is no Silverlight for Chrome OS unless anybody out there knows how I can install it. Of course installing software runs counter to the purpose of Chrome OS, right? It still remains, however, that I feel this would be very useful to use when I need a Windows environment to do something such as manipulate a file.
I think an epic battle between Google and Microsoft is heating up. With Microsoft’s Codeplex open source community developing Windows4all, it appears that Redmond is realizing they are going to have to go open source or go bust. They are woefully behind at this point, however. In fact, the move to make Silverlight open source has been met with problems in the past week and remains without a GPL.
Are third party plugins going to be allowed in Chrome OS? Will Google in essence regulate what plugins can be installed? In order to maintain security, I think that is the option they will go down. For example, the builds of Chrome OS we are using right now have Flash, and I assume that Google will maintain updates for it. Remember the security warning for Flash users earlier this year? Yeah, that’s why it won’t be a plugin for Chrome OS.
