If you think you’ll need a little longer to transition away from such plugins you should download Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release), where NPAPI plugins will continue to work for another year. Consider this a short-term, stop gap solution.
NPAPI allowed the browser to integrate plugins to add support for content such as Silverlight or Java to the Firefox web browser. In Firefox 53, Mozilla will remove this workaround. Mozilla dropped support for all NPAPI plugins except for Adobe Flash when it released Firefox 52 in March 2017. That’s it assuming your NPAPI plugins are installed correctly they should work as before. “But there is a way to enable Java, Silverlight etc NPAPI plugins in Firefox 52 using an about:config setting. Add new Boolean string "plugin.load_flash_only" and set it to false. You can’t work with government if no Java plugin is present,” he explains. “This is important, because some websites are still using Java plug-ins, like for example our government site for signing documents. If there’s a particular NPAPI plugin that you rely on there is (for now) a way to override Firefox defaults and re-enable NPAPI support. Renable NPAPI Plugin Support in Firefox 52
The next major Firefox ESR ( Extended Support Release) release, also scheduled for March, will continue to support plugins such as Silverlight and Java until early 2018, for those users who need more time for their transition. Google Chrome ditched NPAPI support back in 2014 (and the version of Flash that ships pre-bundled uses the newer PPAPI tech).īut it is in Firefox 52, with Mozilla’s first step towards total removal of the technology from its browser, that is likely to impact Linux users the most. As we announced last year, Firefox plans to drop support for all NPAPI plugins, except Flash, in March 2017. Whatever bonuses these plugins, Flash, Silverlight and Java among them, offered have been long since outweighed by the inherent security flaws manipulated to malicious ends. This is a good move in the round as NPAPI is a terribly outdated technology (over 20 years old, in fact). Firefox 52 began its roll out yesterday, bringing a bunch of small iterative improvements to the fore.Īmong the most significant change in the release is the decision to disable support for all NPAPI plugins bar Adobe Flash by default.
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