Chrome Beta gets built-in webcam and microphone support
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) -- A Google company blog announcement this week announced the Google Chrome Beta (of Chrome 21) and all that it brings, namely fresh ways to grant Web applications access to your camera and microphone within the browser without having to deal with plug-ins. Users can forgo having to deal with Adobe Flash and Silverlight for using the webcam in the browser. Google software engineer Robert Toscano explained what the changes bring for the browser, which competes with Internet Explorer and, by some research firm counts, narrowly edges IE in popularity.