Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

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Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

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Firefox 52 is out today, and it's a landmark release for a couple of reasons. The release is the final major version to support two legacy operating systems: Windows XP and Windows Vista. Future major ...

Mozilla will stop supporting most browser plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016 . But for Linux users, that won’t make a major difference for one of the biggest ...

Plugins downloaded for use with Firefox will no longer be activated by default in order to reduce crashes, security problems and hang-ups in the browser. On Tuesday, Benjamin Smedberg, Engineering ...

Starting in Firefox 69, Mozilla will be disabling support for the Adobe Flash plugin by default. This is being done as part of the roadmap set forth by Mozilla on how they will be ultimately disable ...

After a reversal of course, reports of the death of the NPAPI implementation of Flash Player for Linux are not only greatly exaggerated -- Adobe also wants to give it a bunch of new code. For the past ...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 52 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes support for WebAssembly, a warning for non-secure HTTP pages with logins, and the removal of NPAPI ...