wraggster
October 11th, 2015, 20:25
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/35880461d31c4a05bf876a61e00dd766/202400710/DSC03190.JPG (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/09/firefox-stops-plugin-support-by-end-of-2016/)Horrible browser plugins used to offer extended multimedia features for website, often at the cost of a much worse overall experience -- thankfully, they're going the way of the dodo. Chrome recently banished (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033?hl=en) plugins like Java and Silverlight (and made auto-playing Flash ads disabled by default (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/28/chrome-will-block-obnoxious-flash-ads-starting-september-1st/)), and now Firefox is doing the same. Mozilla just announced in a blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/) that nearly all old-school plugins will not be supported in Firefox by the end of 2016. That's a long ways away, but it's still good news.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/09/firefox-stops-plugin-support-by-end-of-2016/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/09/firefox-stops-plugin-support-by-end-of-2016/