What happened to running Java applets inside your web browser, anyway?
@vaporeon_ as i understand it, web browser plugins (diffurent concept from extensions) were such a reliable source of exploits that they got phased out
@aescling > web browser plugins (diffurent concept from extensions)
What was difference?
Was Adobe Flash also a plugin? They still had that until very recently
@vaporeon_ yeah flash was a plugin
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@vaporeon_ i believe the diffurence comes down to extensions being run in a sandboxed environment, whereas plugins lacked such restrictions and thus could be catastrophic if broken
