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Does silverlight work on chrome?


This guy have had partial success with silverlight in chrome, but it does not seem to be supported:

http://wildermuth.com/2008/09/02/Silverlight_2_and_Google_Chrome

From The Microsoft Silverlight Team in the silverlight forum:

Hello, currently we don't have plans to support Chrome. We will support it in the future if it gains enough market share. Please understand, each browser implements the plug-in model differently, so it'll be a lot of effort to officially support a browser 100%... By the way, IE 8 also runs each tab in its own process. If a tab crashes, other tabs will still work fine.

UPDATE:

Jon Galloway has just posted instructions on how to get silverlight successfully running on Chrome here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/09/17/silverlight-on-chrome.aspx


The official word on what is supported looks like this:

alt text http://www.jesseliberty.com/sl/browsers.jpg

The reality is that we do run on a lot of browsers, but things change might quickly in these here parts.


For what it is worth, the Dev Branch of Google Chrome was recently updated to support Silverlight 2. I tried it and it works for me. Of course, you have to use the Dev release of Google Chrome. You can get more information about switching to Chrome Dev here.