{"id":68819,"date":"2014-06-30T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=68819"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:37:02","slug":"google-hangouts-plugin-built-into-chrome-canary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-hangouts-plugin-built-into-chrome-canary\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hangouts doesn&#8217;t require a plugin in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making using <a title=\"Hangouts for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hangouts<\/a> even easier by building it into its <a title=\"Google Chrome for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a> browser. I reported this feature would be <a title=\"Google+ Hangouts goes HD, will run without plug-ins soon\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-hangouts-goes-hd-will-run-without-plug-ins-soon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coming<\/a>, but it has finally arrived in the <strong>experimental versions<\/strong> of Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re running <a title=\"Chrome Canary for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-canary.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Canary<\/a> or other developer build of Chrome, you can get this feature today. The rest of us will have to wait a <strong>few weeks<\/strong> until Google fixes all the bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Users of other browsers like <a title=\"Firefox for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a>, <a title=\"Opera for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/opera.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera<\/a>, and <a title=\"Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/internet-explorer-11-windows-7.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Explorer<\/a> will still need to install the plugin for Hangouts to work.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Victoria Kirst Google Plus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/103171586947853434456\/posts\/39TCW3PcLye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victoria Kirst (Google+)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-delete-google-search-results\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to delete Google search results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/adobe-releases-updated-flash-player-14-and-adobe-air-14\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe releases updated Flash Player 14 and Adobe AIR 14<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-extension-email-encryption\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google developing Chrome extension to secure your email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making using Hangouts even easier by building it into its Chrome browser. I reported this feature would be coming, but it has finally arrived in the experimental versions of Chrome. If you&#8217;re running Chrome Canary or other developer build of Chrome, you can get this feature today. The rest of us will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-hangouts-plugin-built-into-chrome-canary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Hangouts doesn&#8217;t require a plugin in Chrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":64396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2620],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-68819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionhangouts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330555,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68819\/revisions\/330555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68819"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=68819"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=68819"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=68819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}