In the early days of the Internet, when browsers were simple pieces of software, this meant movies, songs, games, and others.įor this, developers and companies created plugins that adapted technologies such as Flash, Java, Silverlight, audio and movie codecs, and allowed them to work inside Firefox. The NPAPI backbone allowed Firefox to support features not embedded in web standards themselves. NPAPI stands for Netscape Plugins API and is an ancient plugins infrastructure inherited from the old Netscape browser on which Mozilla built Firefox. Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for a few more versions.
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