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Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA

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On 2012-02-15 23:50:04 +1100, Richard Maher said:

> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone else gutted that the Chrome browser on Android will not 
> support JAVA, Flash or any other pluggin?
> 
> I thought Google and Android were big on JAVA?
> 
> Cheers Richard Maher

Android uses the Dalvik VM, ostensibly to take advantage of the CPU 
architectures of the devices commonly used in mobile devices.  For 
Google it also provides a convient firewall to keep out unwanted code 
from their eco system.

Flash is no longer necessary since HTML5.  Flash is unwanted anyway as 
it offers some pernicious features for marketers (and others) to track 
users using Flash cookies. I say good riddence to Flash.

The same goes for Java Applets.  It has been a long time since applets 
have been useful. I recommend that people disable Java in their 
browsers. It is just a security risk and a way to waste memory.  HTML  
canvas and websockets and JS can do anything that you could do in Java 
in a browser. Applets are a dying technology and the sooner they kick 
the bucket the better for everyone.

As for Android. It is in my opinion a fiendishly clever honeypot aiding 
Google in collecting the identities of as many people in the world as 
they can.

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Chrome for Android does not support JAVA "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> - 2012-02-15 20:50 +0800
  Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 09:57 -0800
    Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-15 17:13 -0700
  Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-15 19:21 -0500
    Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-15 18:37 -0700
  Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2012-02-16 13:21 +1100
    Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 21:23 -0500
      Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2012-02-17 21:52 +1100
        Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 10:22 -0800
        Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-17 21:49 -0500
    Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-02-17 18:53 +0000
      Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-17 15:38 -0500
        Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-17 21:36 -0500
      Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-02-17 21:53 +0100

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