Firefox 52 will be the first release version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser that will ship without support for NPAPI plugins. The only exception to the rule is that Firefox 52 will support Adobe Flash. All other plugins, Silverlight, Java, and all the others, won't be supported anymore in the Firefox version. While plugin use is on the decline, scenarios exist where plugins are still required to use sites or services on the Internet. Firefox is the last major browser for the desktop that ends support for plugins. For instance which it released on September 1, 2015.
Support Forum; Firefox; install java plugin without internet. Support Forum. This thread was archived. That's an old feature in Java (like from the 1.5 or 1.6 builds) and so may be greyed-out, but if is isn't check-marked that might be an indication of your problem.
Mozilla announced the in 2015 for the end of 2016, to Firefox 52. Firefox 52: how to keep on using plugins Firefox users who require these plugins may already have a plan in place to make sure that they can access sites and services that require plugins after the Firefox 52 release. Some Firefox users may be inclined to block updates of Firefox 51.x to avoid being upgraded to Firefox 52 or later. This is not really advised though, as it means that security updates won't become available for that version of Firefox anymore.
The risk of successful attacks increases because of this. Provided that you want to stay with Firefox, the best course of action at the time is to switch from Firefox Stable to Firefox ESR before the update to Firefox 52. Firefox 52.0 ESR will be released alongside Firefox 52.0.
This is good news for anyone requiring plugins, as Firefox 52.0 ESR will continue to support plugins whereas Firefox 52.0 won't. A full Extended Support Release cycle lasts seven full releases. This means that you will be able to use plugins in Firefox ESR until March 2018. Another option that you have is to install a Firefox ESR release next to Firefox Stable, and use it exclusively for sites and services that require plugins. How to move from Firefox Stable to ESR Mike Kaply a guide recently that explains how to switch the update channel from Firefox Stable to Firefox ESR. Step 1: Update channel-prefs.js First thing you do is update the file channel-prefs.js.
You find the file in the Firefox installation directory on your system. The default installation directories are. 32-bit Firefox Windows - C: Program Files (x86) Mozilla Firefox. 64-bit Firefox Windows - C: Program Files Mozilla Firefox. Linux - /usr/lib/firefox-version. Mac Os X - /Applications/Firefox.app You find the file under defaults prefs, e.g.
C: Program Files (x86) Mozilla Firefox defaults prefs channel-prefs.js Open the file in a plain text editor, and replace the line pref('app.update.channel', 'release'); with pref('app.update.channel', 'esr'); Step 2: Modify update-settings.ini The second file that you need to modify is update-settings.ini. It is located in the root folder of the Firefox installation, e.g. C: Program Files (x86) Mozilla Firefox. Change the line ACCEPTEDMARCHANNELIDS=firefox-mozilla-release to ACCEPTEDMARCHANNELIDS=firefox-mozilla-esr and save the file. Closing Words Mike notes that you should make the change as close to the release of Firefox 52 ESR as possible. The release is on March 7, 2017. Another option that you have is to install on your system, and start using it.
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The new installation will pick up the profile that you used up until now. Please note though that Firefox 45.x ESR may not support certain features yet that Mozilla implemented in Firefox 46 to 51. Some add-ons or features may not be yet available because of the nature of ESR releases. Now You: Are you still using plugins? To Gary H: Very sad? Yes, but you have alternatives, if you want to look for them, to know one alternative (a very good one, IMHO), please read the rest. To Dave: Please evaluate Pale Moon browser as well (www.palemoon.org), it’s a highly optimized fork from Firefox with support to NPAPI and the classic XUL extensions, please keep reading to know more.
You are both dumb. Because Flash uses less resources to process the video? And because it is more compatible? (yes, the number of browsers that can run flash is bigger than the number of browsers that can play the video through HTML5, concerning older versions). You are voting not for an “open web”, but for a restricted, non-extendable, really resources hungry Web.
Have you not noticed that most HTML5 websites and JS codes these days use way too much more hardware resources to give the user more or less the same result on the screen? Because of retards like you two, computers capable of doing billions of operations per second start to become “slow” or even “obsolete”. Computers of today should be doing everything with blazing speed, but the overall speed effect (of loading websites, for example) is more or less the same as we had 10 years ago to produce the same result on the screen. I mean the usual web experience, putting the hi-res videos aside (processing them has nothing to do with browser rendering text, pictures and tables). Optimization and extendibility is the right way to go. Unfortunately, not nowadays.
I think this situation exists because of three factors: on one hand there are so-called programmers that are programming with a mouse and know nothing about CPU cycles nor about what a byte of information consists of. On the other hand there are stupid consumers that do not want to know anything, just wanting to use Facebook even if that will require to buy a new computer. And there is also a very hungry business behind this all that wants the sales to go up forever. People who support these tendencies and consider themselves to be technically-literate should be ashamed. Go study informatics first.
Ok – need advice from the Experts! I have the last FF version 51 with “addons” support. I need to install FF version 52.ESR. which will support addons until March 2018, next (in parallel) to my existing FF version 51. Did this: 1) From the Mozilla URL: I selected the FF version 52.ESR. for LINUX 32-bit and downloaded the 52 ESR file: firefox-52.0esr.tar.bz2 Q1) How do I proceed to actually install FF 52 ESR, (keeping my current FF 51)? There are hundreds of files in that 52ESR zipped downloaded file Which do I click or do next to install FF 52 ESR?
Q2) Will the new FF 52 ESR (if installed alongside my FF v51) “pick up” all addons I currently use? Or do I need to re-install each of my addons one-by-one, in v.52 ESR? Thanks for your advice Confused in SF Ubuntu 12.04-32bit Linux with FF v.51. I don’t know, I just don’t know, I am sitting with FF42, the so called upgrades to FF seem to break my functionality with certain add-ons. I like the concept of being able to tweek what I want and I feel safe with ublock origin, ghostery, do not track blah blah blah. I like my xmarks and my bank and all my secure logins to my union, the local job database/service all run with java, why should I lose my functionality?
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I am not a noob or lazy, I go into about:config and play, I get my FF to look and feel how I want it to, so why screw with a good thing, sometimes constant “improvement” for improvements sake can be the wrong direction. Some stations only use a browser plug-in, typically the Adobe Flash Player (though some use a different third-party browser player that frequently also requires the Flash Player). However, many stations also have dedicated streams in various formats, the most common of which is MP3 (others include AAC and HLS). If the station in question does offer one of these audio streams, then you can do a quick search for a free media player that meets your needs (personally, I prefer to use the old and obsolete Winamp for radio streams, but there are many to choose from that are current). As an aside, an excellent source for stream links (as well as program scheduling) is (non-commercial stations, world-wide).