Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year (mozilla.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla announced that it will follow the lead of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in phasing out support for NPAPI plugins. They expect to have it done by the end of next year. "Plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security incidents for Web users. ... Moreover, since new Firefox platforms do not have to support an existing ecosystem of users and plugins, new platforms such as 64-bit Firefox for Windows will launch without plugin support." Of course, there's an exception: "Because Adobe Flash is still a common part of the Web experience for most users, we will continue to support Flash within Firefox as an exception to the general plugin policy. Mozilla and Adobe will continue to collaborate to bring improvements to the Flash experience on Firefox, including on stability and performance, features and security architecture." There's no exception for Java, though.

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Re:Electrolysis

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Not OP, but same workflow: They are being closed. After they've been read. Which is later.

My suggestion is rather than insist there's no reason someone would open links to read later, you propose either a sane alternative that's just as comfortable as opening tabs for things you plan to read using technologies in Firefox et al already (I don't think there are any, otherwise we'd be using them. No, we don't want to clutter up our bookmarks with them, and bookmarks aren't exactly a solution anyway given you can't really quickly add an unopened link to a bookmark, which might not work anyway given referrers and other nonsense.),

...or you could propose to Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft some other solution that means this perfectly normal workflow can be replaced by something else.

Until then, I question why you're complaining about other people opening a lot of tabs. It's none of your business (that applies to anyone making this complaint, not just you personally), you've made no effort to understand why people do this, and you're attempting to micromanage how other people read the web.

You're not helping. You're borderline trolling.