Mozilla is set to drop support for all\u00a0NPAPI\u00a0plugins – except Flash – from 7 March. The move coincides with the scheduled release of Firefox 52.<\/p>\n
NPAPI (Netscape Plugins API) is\u00a0an “ancient plugins infrastructure inherited from the old Netscape browser”, reported Bleeping Computer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Firefox is based on the\u00a0Netscape browser.<\/p>\n “These plugins helped the web move forward, but as time advanced, the Internet’s standards groups developed [new] standalone Web APIs and technologies,” stated the report.<\/p>\n This removed the need for the “special plugins”.<\/p>\n “Today, audio and video streaming are supported by HTML5, while games can be built with a vast array of technologies – all without the need of Java, Flash, or Silverlight.”<\/p>\n Mozilla is set to drop support for all NPAPI plugins – except Flash – from 7 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[981,2558,975,41121],"class_list":["post-197479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-flash","tag-mozilla","tag-npapi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197483,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197479\/revisions\/197483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Free VPN connections now available at South Africa\u2019s Internet Exchanges<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"