[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

[NP-Hardass]

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# NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> (19 Jan 2017)
# Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process
# of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making
# this obsolete.
# Masked for removal in 30 days.
www-plugins/pipelight


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NP-Hardass


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

[Daniel Campbell]

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On 01/10/2017 11:29 AM, NP-Hardass wrote:
> # NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> (19 Jan 2017)
> # Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process
> # of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making
> # this obsolete.
> # Masked for removal in 30 days.
> www-plugins/pipelight
> 
> 
Would this work for Pale Moon by any chance?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:51:35AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote
> On 01/10/2017 11:29 AM, NP-Hardass wrote:
> > # NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> (19 Jan 2017)
> > # Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process
> > # of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making
> > # this obsolete.
> > # Masked for removal in 30 days.
> > www-plugins/pipelight
> > 
> > 
> Would this work for Pale Moon by any chance?

  According to their webpage https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml
NPAPI plug-ins are still supported.

> Technology support
> Pale Moon supports and will continue to support the following
> features/technologies:
> 
> *  Full UI customization
> *  Full theming (complete themes) and lightweight theming (personas)
> *  XUL and XBL to build interfaces
> *  NPAPI plug-ins
> *  XPCOM binary components for extensions
> *  Overlay and bootstrapped extensions, including restartless ones
> *  Access to low-level APIs from extensions
> *  Pale Moon Sync (in the secure, time-tested Weave fashion)

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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications