Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

I believe Firefox 52 will completely disable NPAPI without any manual 
pref override or whitelist (except for Flash).

The Firefox 52 release is planned for March 7, 2017. I updated the 
release calendar wiki:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates

What is the NPAPI plugin that your organization uses for video 
conferencing? Google Hangouts? Does your organization have a solution 
for Chrome or Edge? They don't support NPAPI plugins.


chris


On 7/18/16 2:06 PM, Suril Patel wrote:
> 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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