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I think the overhead of dealing with user bug reports and services' requests to be whitelisted is greater than the value of a Silverlight whitelist (that doesn't affect 32-bit Firefox). I don't think we need to worry about new services launching in 2016 that rely on Silverlight, given that neither Chrome nor Edge support Silverlight. Its also been removed as default browser on all our new setups.There are many smaller regional services that use Silverlight DRM besides Amazon and Netflix. I assume the choice by Google is their comeback, or attack, on Oracle and seems little to do with any other motive.Īll this has really done is removed chrome as a choice for many small, medium and larger businesses.
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Java, like it or not, is a major tech used in many business and server software, and google simply stopping to support it, will not stop people from using it.Ī great deal of server software is java based and therefore chrome can’t be used with any servers that use Webmin, or virtualmin, or any CMS software that may use Java plugins, or any online FTP programs etc etc etc. Banking, finance, and many intranet software doesn’t run. We have found that many, many business sites are affected with googles choice to abandon them. Its been a bit of a night mare as we were caught off guard. WE have had to switch all our pcs away from chrome and currently using Maxthon as they have stated that they will suport npapi for the forseeable future. And those with little tech-knowledge won’t even know why, and will just fruitlessly call a support line, get frustrated, and depending on the importance of the plug-in, move to a different browser.
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While it is true that this was enough time for the big players to disentangle themselves from it, the same can’t be said for smaller outfits – therefore pretty much everyone is going to have at least something they used with some regularity just stop working. I understand why they did it from a security perspective, but I think their one-year-plan to deprecate NPAPI was far too rushed.
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And while I only need it once a year, Germany’s tax e-file system uses an NPAPI plugin for authenticating your Security USB Dongle.Īdmittedly niche applications, but important enough for me to have immediately downgraded Chrome back to 44 and disabled updates for the time being in the long-term I’ll probably have to run Firefox either as a secondary browser, or move over entirely. >Do you access contents regularly on the web that require NPAPI plugins?Īlmost daily, ’s UDP applet is Java-based, and I use it to organize new files added to my media-server. I believe the problematic will concern more advanced users than other ones who may rather opt for what can be, what will be done on their browser without considering another one just for a plugin time-related issue I wouldn’t be as categorical about low/medium technicality savant users moving to another browser for the sole reason that their default browser no longer handles plugins they care for : this move IMO is more that of experienced users when in my experience average users consider as a hassle the fact of installing a new major app - here a browser - and having to move accordingly their browser related data to that new browser.Īlso, if a user is aware enough of what different browsers offer specifically then he is likely to be aware of the related topics, those of security related causes, those of perspective in time (history of the problems) and in alternatives (alternatives to a disabled plugin - HTML5 in place of Flash, even if there is no alternative to Java, but Java required is more a reality for skilled users think of the number of users who still mix up Java and Javascript).