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I don't think plugins are as compelling an argument today as they were a few years back. Flash is basically gone, and Firefox's PDF viewer is 100% Javascript.

The only plugin i have is the JRE - which has provided a 64-bit version for over 10 years (SPARC64 in Java 1.4). And i can't remember the last time i chanced upon a Java applet in a webpage.

Even the Unity3D Web Player has a 64-bit browser plugin. I can't imagine what's really missing other than outdated versions of RealPlayer.



Flash is still installed on over 99% of desktop browsers. And the pdf viewer is way too slow (at least for me) for real world usage.




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