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Because it uses PNaCl
AKA Google ActiveX. This was a bad idea when Microsoft did it and it's still a horrible idea now.
Regardless, it's pretty much already been killed. Too bad it's taken 8 years for a web standard (WebAssembly) to match it.
How great would it be if they did the same thing for Google Finance as well? It hasn't been touched in years.
They didn't close the circle yet, to let trucks enter the midsection.
Why the hard requirement on Google Chrome?
Maybe they made it so it can run on ChromeOS also ? It's not so different than downloading a Windows application that requires JVM or some .NET distributable, or a Linux package with additional dependencies, IMHO.
They have a Google Earth desktop client if you want a desktop application. As this is sitting on the open web it should use open standards.
"Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth. Please try this link in Chrome." Get fucked. Embrace, extend, and extinguish. It's ActiveX all over again. PS: I have a 4 Ghz, quad core, i7-6700K CPU, 64GB RAM, 250Mbps internet and this is both poorly working to the point of being impossible to use, and bringing my computer to a halt.
No. _You_ didn't support my browser. The web is not "Just Chrome" any more than the web was "Just Internet Explorer". Same game, different player.
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AKA Google ActiveX. This was a bad idea when Microsoft did it and it's still a horrible idea now.
It's ActiveX, but completely secure and open source. Sounds like a good idea. Regardless, it's pretty much already been killed. Too bad it's taken 8 years for a web standard (WebAssembly) to match it.
Yeah, there has never been a case of software breaking out of a sandbox or VM.
Fact is it allows running native x86 code downloaded from the internet, it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than e.g. Javascript running inside a sandboxed runtime.
Oh man this is amazing! It's fast too. I can only imagine this getting better still with more research in deep learning.
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It's ActiveX, but completely secure and open source. Sounds like a good idea. Regardless, it's pretty much already been killed. Too bad it's taken 8 years for a web standard (WebAssembly) to match it.
> completely secure Yeah, there has never been a case of software breaking out of a sandbox or VM. Fact is it allows running native x86 code downloaded from the internet, it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than e.g. Javascript running inside a sandboxed runtime.