Re: NPAPI being dropped end of 2016?

On 10/9/2015 12:26 PM, Jeff McWilliams wrote:
> According to Benjamin Smedberg's Oct 8th blog posting,
>
> "Mozilla intends to remove support for most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016."
>
> And "Site maintainers should prepare for plugins to stop working in all versions of Firefox by the end of 2016."
>
> This seems to be a change from earlier assurances that NPAPI support in Firefox was not going away.

NPAPI has already been marked as a legacy technology. I have said that 
NPAPI won't go away without fair warning. This announcement is our 
notice that we've decided to go ahead and plan this change, giving 
people 15 months or so of warning.

--BDS