NPAPI plugins and other things
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NPAPI plugins and other things
First I do not want a flame war. But I am curious.
I see some people that say that they need the Silverlight plugin. Yet I can not think of, do not know of, a site that uses it. And I do not recall anyone actually posting a link to 'this mystery site'.?? I have never had this plugin installed myself. Ever.
I see others insisting that they need the Java plugin for 'some mystery site' but once again I can not think of any site, not one, that requires it. A default install of the Java.exe does not enable the java browser plugin. And Oracle is working on dumping it.
Could someone clear this up? Or am I seeing 'well we always did it that way' stuff.
I see some people that say that they need the Silverlight plugin. Yet I can not think of, do not know of, a site that uses it. And I do not recall anyone actually posting a link to 'this mystery site'.?? I have never had this plugin installed myself. Ever.
I see others insisting that they need the Java plugin for 'some mystery site' but once again I can not think of any site, not one, that requires it. A default install of the Java.exe does not enable the java browser plugin. And Oracle is working on dumping it.
Could someone clear this up? Or am I seeing 'well we always did it that way' stuff.
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Re: NPAPI plugins and other things
Valid question Just as a swag need for these plugins would most probably be legacy software in universities and various industries. Been a long time since I even installed JAVA on any of my home pc's and I don't think I ever installed Silverlight.
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Re: NPAPI plugins and other things
I still need the Java plugin for old Java games that don't work in appletviewer. The games were free downloads, so I just play them locally, it's not really a "site". Looks like most of the sites in question no longer exist, but this one is still going - http://www.javafile.com/The Tinsmith wrote:I see others insisting that they need the Java plugin for 'some mystery site' but once again I can not think of any site, not one, that requires it. A default install of the Java.exe does not enable the java browser plugin. And Oracle is working on dumping it.
And also like malliz said, some people need specific old version of the Java plugin for legacy corporate software.
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Thanks to you both.
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You're welcome.
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Netflix used to require Silverlight. I think they added support for HTML5 sometime in 2013. I'm not aware of any other popular/high traffic web sites that used it. Supposedly 0.1% of web sites currently use it.
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I need Silverlight for Microsoft's SharePoint, and other older site. As already said they are Legacy programs, so nothing new I think needs it.
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Now there is 'one' I have never heard of.Microsoft's SharePoint
But I find it odd that a Microsoft site still requires a plugin that they dropped years ago in 2012
So is this a 'company thing' with not up-to-date software or Windows versions or a "Microsoft thing'?
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It's a company thing. We just moved to SharePoint 2016, so getting off the old 2013 SharePoint site that still needs Silverlight will take a bit of time.The Tinsmith wrote:Now there is 'one' I have never heard of.Microsoft's SharePoint
But I find it odd that a Microsoft site still requires a plugin that they dropped years ago in 2012
So is this a 'company thing' with not up-to-date software or Windows versions or a "Microsoft thing'?
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Ah. So you do have a solution. That is good. But you (your company) has seen that the latest Firefox ESR will, if I read it correctly, still support Silverlight for almost one more year?It's a company thing. We just moved to SharePoint 2016, so getting off the old 2013 SharePoint site that still needs Silverlight will take a bit of time.
However your company should not wait that long.
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Re: NPAPI plugins and other things
Outlook Web Access utilizes Silverlight for file attachment dialogs, but it's not necessary. You can still use a default browser upload dialog box with Silverlight installed
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