Google Earth Plugin Fails in all browsers

[David Fibingr]

Message from webpage dialog

We are unable to render this video at this time. Do you have the recent Google Earth Plugin for this browser? (ERR_CREATE_PLUGIN)

This happens in both Chrome and IE when trying to render the MapMyHike Videos. I also tested other Google Plugin sites and I get the same error.

Re-installed the plug in many times.

Any Ideas would be appreciated

Thank you,

[someguy]

The browsers no longer support the plugin so we are screwed.  I haven't found anything else that compares to google earth.  The plugin was nice I'm now having to use the Earh application and run the web through their inline browser, DOH!

they need to make a html5 compatible version of earth IMO 

[Scott Hamm]

Need to verify that this plugin is now no longer supported.

[josh258]

The Google Earth plugin has been deprecated, but has already stopped working for many browsers including Google Chrome. The error messages is a default message for when the plugin fails to load. For now, Chrome has a work around, but these require the user to change Chrome settings. Below is the supported browser page from Google (notice Chrome support stops at 39; current version around 42) and Google Earth Blog's current work around for Chrome. As of May 3, Firefox asks user if they want to load the Plugin, Chrome was the same way until version 42. IE has needed a compatibility <meta tag> since IE10. 

https://support.google.com/earth/answer/166094?hl=en

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/04/chrome-now-making-harder-use-google-earth-plugin.html

[Jacob Lerner]

I found downloading and installing it from Firefox seems to be the best.