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 This is a good move in the round as NPAPI is a terribly outdated technology (over 20 years old, in fact). The end-user experience will be similar to what it is when Java is not enabled on Firefox.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. The client install and/or launch process will not complete. Once NPAPI plugins are disabled, end-users will not be able to install or launch Pulse Secure components from Mozilla Firefox 52.X and above. What is the impact of this on Pulse Secure Products? Mozilla announced that on March 2017 support for NPAPI will be disabled by default in Firefox 52.X. As of today, Java Secure Application Manager (JSAM) and Premier Java RDP Applet remain the last components to leverage Java in 8.2RX. In 8.2RX and above, Pulse Secure products had introduced Pulse Secure Application Launcher (PSAL) as an alternative to Java for deploying Pulse Secure components. When logging in from a Mozilla Firefox 52.x browser on a supported Windows OS or macOS client, Pulse Secure products use a Java applet to install client components (for PCS 8.1RX and prior) such as the Pulse Secure Desktop Client, Network Connect, Windows Terminal Services, etc.

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