Silverlight on Chromebook

Question

In spite of being a dead-end technology, there are a couple of apps built using Microsoft Silverlight that I have to use. I'm mostly migrated to using a Chromebook full-time, but these couple of apps are keeping me from going because Silverlight is for Windows or Mac.

What can I do to use these apps with my Chromebook?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '13 at 03:01

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Google recommends RDP-ing to a remote machine that can run the silver light code ...

http://support.google.com/chromeos/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1290513

Sucky solution, but there you are.

answered Feb 14 '13 at 03:01

Brian Adkins

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 01 '15 at 20:07

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You can try IEOnChrome, an extension that emulates IE within Chrome, including Silverlight.

edited Apr 01 '15 at 20:07

zeel

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answered Apr 01 '15 at 16:58

maggnetz

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 10:16

You can try to get Pipelight installed on your Chromebook. Probably requires some hacking, but very well worth a try. Works fine for me on Fedora and Ubuntu: http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html

Silverlight on Chromebook

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