NPAPI (was: java web start / error)

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 03:06:53 +0100
On 05/03/2021 14:01, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> … worked well with firefox-esr which I use because the plugins
> are deprecated using the newer firefox.  Despite that it also used to
> work with the regular firefox. …

For reference – I dug up some of what's below in response to a question 
in IRC about <https://wiki.freebsd.org/NPAPI>:

Removal of NPAPI plugin support in Firefox 85
<https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/NsdReYslBU4/m/b9FwjVAbBAAJ>

Java Plugin is Removed from JDK 8u for Linux, Solaris, and MacOS Platforms
<https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u271-relnotes.html#JDK-8240210>

<https://github.com/davidben/nspluginwrapper> no recent activity, and 
related <https://nspluginwrapper.org/> does not respond.

<https://askubuntu.com/a/905937/25036> about Pale Moon.
Received on Fri Apr 02 2021 - 00:06:58 UTC

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