I'm not sure how many of us out there use Linux as there main desktop OS, but it has just become much harder to effectively administer vCenter.
Recently, Google updated their Chrome browser to version 35, which now treats NPAPI plugins as deprecated and disallows them outright. (NPAPI deprecation: developer guide - The Chromium Projects) This means that a lot of plugins will no longer work, chief among them for us, the vSphere Client Integration Plugin. This means that, while the Web Client will still load, we've lost the ability to open console sessions, attach local ISOs to virtual machines, and probably other things.
Using another browser is no longer possible thanks to both VMWare's reliance on Adobe Flash versions 11.5 or higher, and Adobe freezing flash versions on Linux to version 11.2. So while the Web Client does work on Chrome thanks to the baked-in pepperflash sitting at version 13, we might be out of luck until a new Client Integration Plugin is written.
Has this affected anyone else? Has there been any official word from VMWare? I find it hard to believe that my team has been the only one wildly inconvenienced by this.