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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:24:27
Message-Id: 20170118002407.GA29584@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: www-plugins/pipelight by Daniel Campbell
1 On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:51:35AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote
2 > On 01/10/2017 11:29 AM, NP-Hardass wrote:
3 > > # NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> (19 Jan 2017)
4 > > # Upstream has discontinued Pipelight and Firefox is in the process
5 > > # of removing NPAPI support (which Pipelight relies upon), making
6 > > # this obsolete.
7 > > # Masked for removal in 30 days.
8 > > www-plugins/pipelight
9 > >
10 > >
11 > Would this work for Pale Moon by any chance?
12
13 According to their webpage https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml
14 NPAPI plug-ins are still supported.
15
16 > Technology support
17 > Pale Moon supports and will continue to support the following
18 > features/technologies:
19 >
20 > * Full UI customization
21 > * Full theming (complete themes) and lightweight theming (personas)
22 > * XUL and XBL to build interfaces
23 > * NPAPI plug-ins
24 > * XPCOM binary components for extensions
25 > * Overlay and bootstrapped extensions, including restartless ones
26 > * Access to low-level APIs from extensions
27 > * Pale Moon Sync (in the secure, time-tested Weave fashion)
28
29 --
30 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
31 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications