You can use a different browser profile for such a dedicated browser. Never use an old browser for public web pages, since the browser may have known, exploitable flaws. A typical use case may be an internal system which needs a Java plugin but is otherwise secured. You can still use an old and unsupported browser, but it may contain flaws and vulnerabilities which won’t be fixed. This will be the final option when Firefox 52 ESR reaches its end of life. To choose the default in Fedora Workstation, go to the Settings control panel, and select Details, Default Applications.
Firefox 11 is disabling Java plugin versions that are below version 1.6 Update 31 or between 1.7.0 and 1.7.2 for Windows computers only.
You can have more than one browser installed. The Java Embedding Plugin is a utility that allows other web browsers than Apples Safari to use the most recent versions of Java on Mac OS X. It also updates itself automatically when a new release is available.
You can then register it as a default browser.
Download and unpack the tar archive somewhere in your home directory and launch the browser. The Firefox 52 ESR binary package is provided from Mozilla site. However, at the end of this year Firefox 52 ESR ( Extended Support Release) is planned to be discontinued. This is the official to run NPAPI plugins by Firefox now.
Then right click anywhere on the option list and add a new Boolean option named plugin.load_flash_only and set it to false.īe aware this entry could be removed anytime without further warning, and is strictly unofficial. In Firefox, enter about:config in the location bar, and confirm the warning dialog. Firefox 52 allows you to override the plugin block using a preference setting in about:config. Fortunately, Fedora users still have options to bypass that plugin ban. The exception is Flash, but Firefox will remove its support in the future, too. The stock Firefox 52 browser disables these components. Some well known NPAPI plugins are Flash, Java, and the GNOME Shell web extension. NPAPI plugins are binary components integrated to the browser. If you think you’ll need a little longer to transition away from such plugins you should download Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release), where NPAPI plugins will continue to work for another year.Mozilla decided to stop supporting NPAPI plugins for Firefox browser two years ago. Consider this a short-term, stop gap solution. In Firefox 53, Mozilla will remove this workaround. That’s it assuming your NPAPI plugins are installed correctly they should work as before. “But there is a way to enable Java, Silverlight etc NPAPI plugins in Firefox 52 using an about:config setting. Add new Boolean string "plugin.load_flash_only" and set it to false. You can’t work with government if no Java plugin is present,” he explains. “This is important, because some websites are still using Java plug-ins, like for example our government site for signing documents. If there’s a particular NPAPI plugin that you rely on there is (for now) a way to override Firefox defaults and re-enable NPAPI support. Renable NPAPI Plugin Support in Firefox 52 Google Chrome ditched NPAPI support back in 2014 (and the version of Flash that ships pre-bundled uses the newer PPAPI tech).īut it is in Firefox 52, with Mozilla’s first step towards total removal of the technology from its browser, that is likely to impact Linux users the most.
Whatever bonuses these plugins, Flash, Silverlight and Java among them, offered have been long since outweighed by the inherent security flaws manipulated to malicious ends. This is a good move in the round as NPAPI is a terribly outdated technology (over 20 years old, in fact). Firefox 52 began its roll out yesterday, bringing a bunch of small iterative improvements to the fore.Īmong the most significant change in the release is the decision to disable support for all NPAPI plugins bar Adobe Flash by default.