On 16/11/16 08:41, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/15/2016 12:56 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently using Nightly V53 of Firefox and a lot of the plugins
provided by Fedora that I have installed Firefox refuses to use, this
included the Gnome Shell Integration plugin. It appears that as of
Firefox Release V52 onwards which appears to be scheduled for around the
end of the year, support for the NPAPI code set is being dropped for
everything except Flash, and Mozilla has indicated they will not budge
from that timeline even though a Commercial Application Vendor has
requested they delay the implementation until August/September 2017 so
that they can change their applications.
Is there any possibility that the plugins for this like the Gnome
Shell Integration, Totem etc can be rewritten to remove their NPAPI usage?
My guess is you'd have to push those requests upstream (e.g. send them
to gnome.org and such). Fedora/Red Hat doesn't write that code, they
basically package the upstream items into Fedora or RHEL. Most upgrade
requests sent to bugzilla get pushed upstream by the triage people.
I doubt FFV53 will be adopted by the Fedora gang if those issues aren't
resolved so they'll probably push it upstream anyway, but getting a
jump on it can't hurt. You might also check the gnome site to see if
they're already working on it and may have a timeline for release.
I've just had an update to the issue I raised on the Mozilla bug site
and they are saying that the V52 ESR and V53 ESR code lines will have
the support until 2018 but the standard code lines will not. They are
also saying that both the standard code line and the ESR code line will
have the same User Agent String so that cannot be used to distinguish
between the two code lines. I'm not sure at the moment how to get the
ESR version of Firefox V53.
I made a suggestion in the Mozilla bug entry that I thought this lack of
support for NPAPI plugins might cause Linux distributions to stop
supporting Firefox, but someone responded that they didn't think that
would happen because Chrome has already ceased support for NPAPI plugins.
regards,
Steve
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