On 9 December 2016 at 08:03, Mason83 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/12/2016 08:21, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
>> Plugin support is discontined in Gecko / Firefox 52 which is the base of
>> SeaMonkey. This was alrweady the case with 64 bit Windows versions for
>> some time. Only Flash will work. All other plugings will no longer work.
>> Nothing we / SeaMonkey devs can do about it.
>>
>> Binary Add-ons will stop working in SeaMonkey 2.50.
>>
>> Only normal add-ons will be supported at least until the end of 2017.
>
> References:
>
> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-adobe-flash-usage-in-firefox/
> https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2016/plug-in-support-has-been-dropped-other-than-flash/
>
> (npapi-eol) Remove support for all NPAPI plugins (except Flash)
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807

Thanks Frank-Rainer and Mason for your help and references. I was not
aware of that.

It is a pity that I won't be able to able to use Gecko Media Player
anymore next year, but such is life.
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