Does silverlight work on chrome?

Question

Does anyone know if silverlight plugs into chrome, or when they plan to support it?

Answer 1

This guy have had partial success with silverlight in chrome, but it does not seem to be supported:

http://wildermuth.com/2008/09/02/Silverlight_2_and_Google_Chrome

From The Microsoft Silverlight Team in the silverlight forum:

Hello, currently we don't have plans to support Chrome. We will support it in the future if it gains enough market share. Please understand, each browser implements the plug-in model differently, so it'll be a lot of effort to officially support a browser 100%... By the way, IE 8 also runs each tab in its own process. If a tab crashes, other tabs will still work fine.

UPDATE:

Jon Galloway has just posted instructions on how to get silverlight successfully running on Chrome here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/09/17/silverlight-on-chrome.aspx

Answer 2

For what it is worth, the Dev Branch of Google Chrome was recently updated to support Silverlight 2. I tried it and it works for me. Of course, you have to use the Dev release of Google Chrome. You can get more information about switching to Chrome Dev here.

Answer 3

The official word on what is supported looks like this:

alt text http://www.jesseliberty.com/sl/browsers.jpg

The reality is that we do run on a lot of browsers, but things change might quickly in these here parts.

Answer 4

Silverlight already works with web-kit, and since Google's Chrome is based on web-kit, it shouldn't be too much effort to get it working.

Indeed, this gentleman seems to have had some success.

Based on this, I would suspect that Silverlight will be fully supported by Chrome by the time it goes gold.