Re: Phasing out NPAPI extensions

On 9/13/2016 2:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Though it has it's pros and cons, I believe there must be a huge user base using silverlight plugin, and many have started migrating to the best and easiest platforms since the "silverlight Y2K" has been announced, there would still be a vast application-base that would fail to meet the deadline of early 2018 causing a havoc in the web based platform interchanges.

The plan to drop Silverlight (and other NPAPI plugins) was announced 
back in 2015 [1] and Mozilla has recommended developers avoid NPAPI 
since 2013 [2]. So this change in NPAPI support should not be a surprise.

Also, Chrome dropped support for Silverlight in 2015 and Edge has never 
supported Silverlight. Any sites that depend on Silverlight already fail 
to support about 70% of the browser market.

Sites that use Silverlight for video DRM in Firefox can now switch to 
Widevine EME [3], using the same HTML5 video player for Firefox and Chrome.

chris

[1] 
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
[2] 
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/
[3] 
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/08/mozilla-to-test-widevine-cdm-in-firefox-nightly/