Silverlight disabled in Chrome 42 by default

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... g-plugins/

Chrome v42 disables NPAPI plugins by default which includes Silverlight. The new webcast portal uses Silverlight as the media player for receiving the broadcast. Looks we'll be using Firefox now.

Just did a successful portal.LDSWebcast.org receive using Silverlight with Chrome V42 on Laptop with Windows 7, 64bit, i5, 4GB
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Be careful and use some of the steps outlined as follows:
Enabling Silverlight Plugin (NPAPI Plugins) in Chrome
http://support.panopto.com/documentatio ... ins-chrome

Verify your Silverlight function in Chrome, Firefox and IE
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight ... fault.aspx

That can work short-term, but eventually Chrome will remove the NPAPI. Why not just use another browser now? They're plentiful. You'll have to use a different one eventually.

Agree and lets hope Microsoft updates Silverlight to use something other that the NPAPI

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a cross-platform plugin architecture used by many web browsers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash.