How Do I Enable Silverlight In Google Chrome Version 42 And Later

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The Question

SuperUser reader Louis wants to know how to enable Silverlight in Google Chrome version 42 and later:

How do you enable Silverlight in Google Chrome version 42 and later?

There is nothing wrong with my installation, I just have to use Internet Explorer for Silverlight-based viewing.

The Answer

SuperUser contributor TD.512 has the answer for us:

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There are other APIs that companies like Microsoft and Oracle can use to modernize their web-plugins and one can expect them to be updated to support these alternative options. But for now, as per this article from Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight may not work in recent versions of Google Chrome, so you will need to do the following: