Can I uninstall Silverlight? Does any major site still require it? [on hold]

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Published on 2014-08-23T22:00:23Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 22:24 UTC
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The last major site using Silverlight was Netflix but there's been an effort to implement Premium Video Extensions for HTML5 on the Mac for Safari. According to Netflix support is coming with OS X Yosemite. (See blog link below) For other platforms it appears Google Chrome also has support for Premium Video Extensions for HTML5 and Netflix will use it.

Is there any other reason I might want to keep Silverlight around?

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/06/html5-video-in-safari-on-os-x-yosemite.html

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