Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support?

An anonymous reader writes: I've been using Google Chrome almost exclusively for more than 3 years. I stopped using Mozilla Firefox because it was becoming bloated and slow, and I migrated all my bookmarks etc. to Chrome. Now Chrome plans to end NPAPI support — which means that I will not be able to access any sites that use Java, and I need this for work. I tried going back to Firefox for a couple of days but it still seems slow — starting it takes time, even the time taken to load a page seems more than Chrome. So what are my options now? Export all my bookmarks and go back to Mozilla Firefox and just learn to live with the performance drop? Or can I tweak Firefox performance in any way? FWIW, I am on a Windows 7 machine at work. Have a question for Slashdot's readers? Take a look at other recent questions first to see if someone else has had a similar question. And if not, ask away! The more details and context you include, the more likely your question will be selected.

Comments

Re:Keep an older copy of Chrome around?

[binarylarry]

On behalf of all the black hats and script kiddies out there: I applaud your advice, sir.

Re: Obviously

[blockhouse]

Hell must have frozen over. People on Slashdot are actually *recommending* Internet Explorer.

Re:Due to stupid security warnings, security

[Cafe Alpha]

This is demonstrably false. While one can write good/bad applications in any language, the set of insecure programs in an untyped language is a superset of the set of insecure programs in a typed language of similar syntax.

You really have to be a math nerd to think you've just said anything meaningful about software engineering. You haven't. My God, you haven't!