Chrome phasing out NPAPI support

GuitarguyMoseng

GuitarguyMoseng

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Hey guys.

So, Google Chrome is now phasing out the NPAPI support. This is kind of problematic... I work as an IT tech in a county over here in Norway, and we have about 1500 users on the network.

The users around here have allways used Chrome, and they are not very tech savvy, if you catch my drift... They are actually VERY "heavy users" as we say. We use a lot of web applications that are using NPAPI plugins (mainly Java and Silverlight), which now none of them are working anymore.

Well. Stricktly speaking: I can go around on every computer to enable the NPAPI plugin, until september when it's going to be fully dissabled, and then have 5 months of even more trouble because they need to whitelist it again.

So, then I ask you. What is the best alternative to Chrome, these days? It needs to be simple, have NPAPI support (of course...), and as easy for anyone(!) to use as possible.

I've heard that Mozilla Firefox is a good choice. But the problem there is that I also find that it's very unstable and very buggy..? Not sure what to go for.

Any advice is appreciated! I'll also post the paragraph I found online.

Bw,
Mr.Moseng

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"Google intends to remove NPAPI support entirely in Chrome version 45, due in September 2015, and will block plugins which use this technology. This includes Oracle's Java and Microsoft's Silverlight plugins, although these will be whitelisted during 5 months. In recent updates it's clearly noticable that Chrome is phasing out the support for these plugins, and problems have started to occur for users depending on support for web applications"
 
Honestly, Firefox is the ultimate choice in my opinion.
Not sure which instability issues you've had, but compared to Chrome, I'd personally say it's more stable and lighter on resources (I use both on each screen of my main PC). In terms of plugins, support for NPAPI etc., I don't know. I use only a few plugins.
There's Chromium though, which I use on Linux machines, which is an open-source version of Chrome. It might support NPAPI, although it seems to follow Chrome pretty closely. But it would be familiar to your users, as the UI is 99% the same.
 
Firefox used to be my favorite browser before I moved to Chrome (faster, lighter...). Opinions vary on both of these browsers but they're both good.

I have the same problem, I legally watch replays of tv shows online and I need Silverlight to be working. I guess I'll move back to FF. Too bad for Chrome.
 
Such a pain. Just downloaded Pale Moon, and I got to say I like it a lot! Looks like we're going to end up with FF though, because it's a browser some of them at least have heard of.

Thnx for the tip though! Definitely going to use PaleMoon on my office computer from now on! hehe
 
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