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Does Google Chrome support Silverlight?

EDIT: I found the download site, ignored the announcement that my system might not support silverlight, downloaded it and tried to install it. It failed.

I don't know where to find the version number of Chrome, but I downloaded, installed and started using it in the last couple of days.

EDIT: Well, I'm still not getting results, so I now use FF for the Olympic channel and it's working. When I used it on Chrome, the channel would load and I would get a message saying it wasn't supported, would I like to try it anyway? I click yes and it would work, but after a short time, it would crash Chrome. So, FF.

Xavierjazz
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TechCrunch: Silverlight 4 In Beta. Supports Google Chrome.

Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4 in beta at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today. Some of the new features include more fluid animations, Webcam, microphone and printing support, 200 percent faster start times than Silverlight 3, deep zoom and multi-touch support and more. It now also supports Google Chrome, even though it’s just a rounding error of a browser.

Some more details on Silverlight 4 features and its Chrome support.
There are also notes of some success with Silverlight 3.

nik
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Yes, Silverlight works perfectly fine in Chrome, at least on Windows. No need for any Dev Version or hackery, it works fine in both Chrome 3 and 4, and the released version of Silverlight 2, 3 or 4 Beta works.

Go to http://silverlight.net/, click on Install, ignore the "Your Browser is not Supported" Warning and click on the Windows Download link to download Silverlight.exe, install, you're done.

Michael Stum
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Support for silverlight on Chrome has been dropped. The currently chosen answer does not reflect recent developments.

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-final-countdown-for-npapi.html

Sjors Miltenburg
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Have you tried installing Silverlight from Firefox? It's been a while since I installed it myself, but I'm sure I only installed it once (or maybe twice - once from IE and then from Firefox) and it "just worked" in the other browsers.

UPDATE

Having had to reinstall everything I can confirm that Silverlight works in Chrome. I installed Silverlight from Firefox and when I browsed to www.silverlight.net in Chrome it "just worked".

ChrisF
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