If you are running Windows 10 and need plugin support Edge is not an option, but IE 11 is. For this reason Microsoft has included Internet Explorer 11, which does support these plugins, with non-mobile versions of Windows 10. This means that Java, ActiveX, Silverlight, and other plugins are no longer supported. This will only be supported until early 2018.Įdge has dropped all support for plugins. Firefox have disabled NPAPI by default, but this can be overridden. You can also install and use a Firefox 32-bit Extended Support Release in Win10. Just pin this exe to your task bar for easy access. IE11 is squirrelled away ( c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe). IE 11 continues to support NPAPI (incl Java Applets). You will find that in Windows 10 you will already have Internet Explorer 11 installed. There are a couple of things that you can do: You cannot open Java Applets (nor any other NPAPI plugin) in Microsoft Edge - they aren't supported and won't be added in the future.įurther you should be aware that in the next release of Google Chrome (v45 - due September 2015) NPAPI plugins will also no longer be supported. This will automatically prompt the user to open in IE. If you must continue to use the Java plugin in a corporate web app, consider adding the site to an Enterprise Mode site list. This will show you a listing of all the plugins your browser can currently use.
Type about:plugins in the tab and hit Enter. First, open Firefox (obviously) and open a tab. Most modern browsers are moving away from plugins and toward standard HTML5 controls and technologies. The first thing that needs to be done is to check for the existence of a Java plugin in your browser. As other folks have mentioned, Java, ActiveX, Silverlight, Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) and other plugins are not supported in Microsoft Edge.