You can't even install Microsoft's own Silverlight browser plugin, which should be the final nail in that platform's coffin.

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Lukas Blakk loves open-source, and was especially jazzed about trying to get the Kinect to work via a browser plugin.

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You'll have to install a browser plugin to get your hit of pop-up cartography, but Google Earth addicts should be suitably impressed.

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Currently, consumers can request a company stop tracking them online by changing a setting in their browser or by adding a browser plugin.

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Adobe only abandoned the Flash browser plugin.

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One notable plugin hangup is the fact that Flash only works in the browser, and can't be embedded into a regular webOS app, PDK or no -- though we have to assume this is something that's in the works.

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