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Improving the performance with an improved rendering engine based on (and highly compatible with) Gecko, the Goanna To kubrick: Man, I can’t say that I know of other Firefox clones/forks, but if you are in the Firefox bandwagon and want to get out because of what you said and other things, take a look at the Pale Moon browser (they will keep supporting the classic plugins and extensions that Firefox is ditching for as long as it is possible, and they can do that because they have been cutting ties with Firefox’s codebase since a few years back: To Dave: Please evaluate Pale Moon browser as well (it’s a highly optimized fork from Firefox with support to NPAPI and the classic XUL extensions, please keep reading to know more. 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. Some add-ons or features may not be yet available because of the nature of ESR releases. Please note though that Firefox 45.x ESR may not support certain features yet that Mozilla implemented in Firefox 46 to 51. The new installation will pick up the profile that you used up until now.
#DO I NEED ADOBE FLASH 20 NPAPI INSTALL#
The release is on March 7, 2017.Īnother option that you have is to install Firefox ESR directly on your system, and start using it. Mike notes that you should make the change as close to the release of Firefox 52 ESR as possible. C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox.ĪCCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=firefox-mozilla-releaseĪCCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=firefox-mozilla-esr It is located in the root folder of the Firefox installation, e.g. The second file that you need to modify is update-settings.ini. Pref("", "esr") Step 2: Modify update-settings.ini Open the file in a plain text editor, and replace the line C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\prefs\channel-prefs.js You find the file under defaults\prefs\, e.g.
#DO I NEED ADOBE FLASH 20 NPAPI WINDOWS#
64-bit Firefox Windows - C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\.32-bit Firefox Windows - C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\.You find the file in the Firefox installation directory on your system.
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Step 1: Update channel-prefs.jsįirst thing you do is update the file channel-prefs.js.
#DO I NEED ADOBE FLASH 20 NPAPI HOW TO#
Mike Kaply published a guide recently that explains how to switch the update channel from Firefox Stable to Firefox ESR. If there is a newer version available, you can just run sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree -install.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. You can run sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree -status to see what version of Pepper Flash you have installed. usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.shĬlose all windows and re-open. To do this, open /etc/chromium-browser/default and add the following line to the end of the file on a new line. Note that you need to configure Chromium to use Pepper Flash.
Sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer Run the following commands to add the PPA and install Pepper Flash: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash If you don't have Trusty, you can use this PPA to install Pepper Flash for any supported Ubuntu version above Precise. If you have Trusty, you can just run sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree. Installing Flash Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and newer Therefore, you need to use Pepper Flash to be able to use Flash. Chromium 34 in the main repos have started using Aura (early), which does not include support for NPAPI (this is a planned phaseout of NPAPI in Chromium).