Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

Christian Rottler <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:49:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.plugins
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Okay, I see. Thanks for your quick reply!

Cheers,
Chris

Am 27. Juni 2016 17:46:34 MESZ, schrieb Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>:
>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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