On 2015-10-10 17:55, David E. Ross wrote:
Mozilla is ending support for NPAPI plugins by the end on 2016.While the number of plugins I have is not as large as the number of extensions, I consder every one of them important. They are: QuickTime Adobe Acrobat (actually Adobe Reader, not the writer) RealPlayer Java I also have Flash, but that apparently will be an exception to the removal of NPAPI support. Does anyone know how these plugins will be affected, specifically in SeaMonkey? What are the plugin developers doing about this?
I'm not a SeaMonkey developer but I also wish SM would not get rid of plug-in support. The recent trend of all the major browsers extracting features in the name of security is troubling. Most ordinary users probably don't care about plug-ins but in a company a plug-in is often the only way to implement communication between a web application and custom software or hardware. For example, I know of a company that has a web application which uses a fiscal printer to print receipts - the communication is achieved with a java applet. Good luck doing that in html5!
I suppose it's still too early to know what SM devs will do about it - but if leaving the plug-in code does not mean any extra work or other problems then I think it would be easy to persuade them to leave it as it is :). However, I'm afraid even this will not be a good long term solution because when all major browsers get rid of NPAPI then no company will create plug-ins just for a small browser minority. But I hope I will be proved wrong!
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