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Flash is becoming less necessary than ever, and you can now even view every single video on YouTube without having Flash installed. Flash: Flash is the plug-in you might still want.Head to the Java Control Panel and disable the Java plug-in if you can’t uninstall it. Even if you need Java installed (to play Minecraft, for example), you don’t need the browser plug-in enabled.

Java: What more can we say about Java? Java applets have all but vanished from the consumer web - unless they’re being used for exploits - but the terribly insecure Java browser plug-in is still enabled by default.You’re doing them a favor by ditching it. Really, Microsoft wants the Silverlight browser plug-in to go away, too. So, if you still just have Silverlight installed for Netflix, you can go uninstall it now. If you’re one of them, there’s good news - in modern browsers, Netflix will just use HTML5 instead of Silverlight. Silverlight: Most people have Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in installed for Netflix.But, at a certain point, we all uninstalled RealPlayer because it just wasn’t necessary. Plug-ins like Java and Silverlight have already hit that point for most people, and even Flash should get there one day soon. Even now, if you dug deep enough, you could probably find web pages that required you install RealPlayer to view their old videos. Plug-ins will likely never vanish completely from the web. RELATED: Why Browser Plug-Ins Are Going Away and What's Replacing Them A plug-in is a program that websites can require. They were necessary when browsers weren’t evolving fast enough - like back in the Internet Explorer 6 days - but now need to go away. An extension or add-on adds a new feature to your browser that you can use, if you like. Note that browser plug-ins are different from extensions, or add-ons.