Firefox 52 to drop support for NPAPI plugins

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Firefox 52 to drop support for NPAPI plugins

Mozilla is set to drop support for all NPAPI plugins – except Flash – from 7 March. The move coincides with the scheduled release of Firefox 52.

 

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Oh? Welcome to the game Firefox. Chrome dropped it years ago. Version 42 if I'm not mistaken.

 

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Why do they still support flash?

 

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Thor187 said:

Why do they still support flash?

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Probably because not everyone is using HTML5?

 

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Genisys said:

Probably because not everyone is using HTML5?

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eg: bbc radio - still uses flash on some of it's live stuff even if you set html5 as the default under user preferences.

 

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MickZA said:

eg: bbc radio - still uses flash on some of it's live stuff even if you set html5 as the default under user preferences.

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Indeed. Last time I checked SARS also still needs Flash.

 

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Genisys said:

Probably because not everyone is using HTML5?

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They should.

 

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Thor187 said:

They should.

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Here you go Thor, lets see you sort the BBC out :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

 

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MickZA said:

Here you go Thor, lets see you sort the BBC out :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

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Thor187 said:

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That won't do anything.

 

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Just listen via Tunein Radio...

 

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I hope my CCTV plugins aren't those...

 

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I hope my CCTV plugins aren't those...

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Mine are :/

I have to use some weird IEHelper for accessing it now.

 

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Purply said:

Mine are :/

I have to use some weird IEHelper for accessing it now.

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I've turned off Automatic updates now

 

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Genisys said:

That won't do anything.

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At least I try.

 

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MickZA said:

eg: bbc radio - still uses flash on some of it's live stuff even if you set html5 as the default under user preferences.

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Some BBC News videos also still require flash while others don't.

I reckon all browsers should just dump flash and leave it up to the content providers to convert. Even though I can use flash I refuse to install any flash plugin and just ignore sites that use it & they are in the minority.