Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

Yes, we will support NPAPI in the ESR52 series. My intention is to stop
supporting it in the 52 release series.

--BDS

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Christian Rottler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> So, will the NPAPI support still be present in the ESR52 line of browsers
> or not? Now I'm a bit confused...
>
> Regards,
> Chris (some other Chris, that is)
>
> Am 27. Juni 2016 17:35:57 MESZ, schrieb Benjamin Smedberg <
> [email protected]>:
>>
>> Actually Chris, my plan was to do this in Firefox 52, not wait for Firefox
>> 53.
>>
>> --BDS
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 4/27/16 1:52 PM, Java Dev wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 1:35:46 PM UTC-5, Chris Peterson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>  hi Alexandra, our tentative schedule is to remove NPAPI support in
>>>>>>  Firefox 53 (which will be in the Firefox Nightly channel in November
>>>>>>  2016
>>>>>> and released in April 2017). These versions or dates are not
>>>>>>  official or set in stone. They could conceivably be postponed if we
>>>>>>
>>>>>  need
>>>>>
>>>>>>  to continue supporting NPAPI for some reason.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  As it has been a few months, I just wanted to double check if the release
>>>>  schedule mentioned above for removal of NPAPI plugins such as the Java
>>>>  Runtime Environment is still the same - namely, the NPAPI support is
>>>>  removed with Firefox 53 which would be released to the public in April 2017.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Yes. That's still the plan.
>>>
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