Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

Hi Benjamin (or other associate),

I am trying to follow, but I think I am a little confused by the latest
exchange.  We use an NPAPI plugin for Video conferencing, as part of very
large (millions) consumer facing organization.

Per what I understood previously, Version 52, will Beta Release on Jan 23
or Jan 24.  The actual general release date - I don't see it, but I am
curious.

1)  Will v52 - releasing in Q1 - by default blacklist all NPAPI plugins?
2)  Thus, the user if he wishes to use an NPAPI plugin, he will have to
manually go somewhere to "enable" or "whitelist" plugins individually or is
it a setting for all?  Any insights here are helpful.
3)  What is general release date for v52?
4)  I assume v53, which is April 2017 will completely disable NPAPI, with
no manual override.

I want to clarify - in our case, ESR versions are not part of the picture -
as our audience is millions of consumers, who will follow the general
release sequence of Firefox, with Auto-update (as an example, I am one of
them, who recently got upgraded to v47).


Thanks

Suril

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The Firefox release calendar can be found at
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
>
> --BDS
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Java Dev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 11:36:36 AM UTC-4, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> > > Actually Chris, my plan was to do this in Firefox 52, not wait for
> > Firefox
> > > 53.
> > >
> > > --BDS
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for the quick reply. Just to clarify, what is the scheduled
> > release time frame/date for Firefox version 52 which would block all
> NPAPI
> > plugins? Also, is it still the case that users who need NPAPI support can
> > switch to Firefox ESR 52 and keep using NPAPI plugins until May 2018?
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Alexandra
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