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.

Comments

Experience?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too much use of the word 'experience' shows that Mozilla has been taken over by managers.

Re:Question

[Sigma 7]

What is NPAPI ?

NPAPI is the legacy plugin system used by browsers that allows webpages to serve executable content without the user having to download a file.

This system is used by Flash, Unity, Java, and various unimportant plugins. Of these, Flash has an arrangement with Adobe, Unity has an exit strategy, and Java is completely neutered as it was for quite some time. The unimportant plugins are unimportant (and if they were, they'd have fixed it by now.)

and does this have anything to do with the add=ons and plug=ins specific to Firefox and Seamonkey
SAome of which break every time they put out a new version of FF

Those are extensions, which is completely different.