Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

You might want to switch from its Rapid Release (commonly just known as
"Firefox") to the Extended Support Release (ESR) which will continue to
support NPAPI-based plugins until next year / around the end of June 2018
according to my schedule.

This should give you some more time to look for an alternative.

Regards,
Chris

On 22 March 2017 at 15:15, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 10:03:41 AM UTC-8, Java Dev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hope all is well. The company I work for uses Java applets for our web
> products and we are currently planning our release schedules to replace
> Java applet tech, as it will affect many users in our product community and
> several products. As such, our dev team would like to better understand the
> "drop dead date" of when the Java plugin will stop working in Firefox.
> >
> > We are aware that the announcement was for end of 2016, but wanted to
> confirm if there is a more specific date other than 12/31/2016. Also, we
> would like to know if Firefox will follow a similar path as Chrome to
> provide a way to still manually enable the Java plugin for some time
> (disabled by default), perhaps even past end of 2016.
> >
> > We want our users to use Firefox instead of other browsers, especially
> since we have had to run through some hoops to get our corporate clients to
> switch from IE to Firefox for our web applications. For some reason, some
> corporations are resistant to running browsers other than IE and it took
> some convincing on our part.
> >
> > Your response is greatly appreciated. We would prefer our user community
> still use Firefox and not switch to IE, while we are working through
> converting our web products to web based technology and away from the Java
> plugin. We are concerned that if they switch to IE again, while we work to
> replace Java applets, their IT departments might not approve going back
> again to Firefox.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Alexandra
> >
> > P.S. If you are interested, more information about our company and
> products is available at www.7thonline.com.
>
> My website uses Java to view my cameras, both with Trendnet Cloudview and
> Amcrest. What are we supposed to do now except avoid Firefox?
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