Mozillaの開発者であるJared Wein氏が、Firefoxに「click-to-play plugins」機能を実装したことをブログにて報告している。「click-to-play plugins」は、Firefoxのプラグインを制御する機能。この機能はすでにFirefoxのナイトリーチャンネル (Firefox 14)に導入されているという。

Mozilla on Tuesday announced a massive change to the way it loads third-party plugins in Firefox. The company plans to enable Click to Play for all versions of all plugins, except the latest release ...

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 ...

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser has undergone some major changes in recent years. Support for unsigned extensions is being phased out. Tabs have moved to the top of the screen and settings menus hide ...

In September 2014, Google had announced that Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) support would be removed starting in January 2015. Now, Mozilla has announced that it has plans ...

Mozilla has released a major new version of Firefox, which includes fixes for more than a dozen security vulnerabilities as well as an important change that makes all Java plugins click-to-play be ...

Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser’s plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox. Plugins are small bits of code that ...

Google Chrome recently dumped support for plugins such as Java and Silverlight, and now it’s Firefox’s turn. Late Thursday, Mozilla announced on its blog that Firefox would stop supporting plugins ...

Firefox extensions (a.k.a. add-ons) get updated from time to time. As you may know, you can check for updates yourself by clicking Tools, Add-ons, Updates, or just wait for the browser to notify you ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...