Re: Mozilla is blocking NPAPI Plugin !!
amol t <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:24:57 -0700 (PDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.plugins |
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On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:35:52 PM UTC+5:30, Georg Fritzsche wrote: > I should also mention that you can test-drive the current state of the feature in Firefox Aurora: > > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ > > > > On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Georg Fritzsche <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Plugins won't be completely blocked, but made click-to-play. > > > The plans for this were first announced here: > > > https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/29/putting-users-in-control-of-plugins/ > > > > > > Since then the click-to-play UI got a major overhaul and making plugins click-to-play by default [1] is now scheduled for Firefox 26, with a planned release date of 2013-12-10. > > > > > > Georg > > > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899080 > > > > > > On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:20 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> Read a news article which says Mozilla will block NPAPI plugins in December ? > > > Thats where I got confused, here is the link for the article http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/say-goodbye-to-npapi/ As they mentioned Google Chrome will block NPAPI based plugins since Jan 2014 and Mozilla from December. As I was just started creating a plugin with NPAPI, this news really stuck me up. So as per you guys, I think, its go ahead for NPAPI plugin. But are there any alternatives besides using NPAPI as for Chrome they suggesst PPAPI or NaCl.