Windows media player extension for chrome mac

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However, it sounds like you're not really developing a web application anyway - your site in IE is basically a portal to downloading further ActiveX-based applications.

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This is completely against Chrome's sandbox everything and wall off every tab approach - the reason why Chrome is by far the quickest, most secure and most stable browser is the same reason that it currently only supports Flash, Silverlight and one or two more. Also if a malign site can't hack your browser it might still be able to hack one of its ActiveXs. That means that if you let in an ActiveX component it owns your PC - and while many are not malign most are resource hogs.

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It works seamlessly with Mac OS X and QuickTime to play all your Windows media files with the original quality. Flip4Mac is currently the latest and official Windows Media Player for Mac. Chrome currently supports only a small subset of ActiveX components entirely on purpose, and it's never going to support them all, and especially lots of random 3rd party propriety ones.īecause ActiveX is a mess - it's a huge security hole and all the components can run at a higher security level than the browser. Even though you can download it somewhere on the Internet, it doesnt work with your modern Mac OS X.