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Since Chrome 45 will drop NPAPI support in september and with it Silverlight, what would be my alternatives beside using another browser ? I would really need to still support Chrome with my application and can't force the user to not update their main browser.

Could I use a chrome extension ?

Could I make them install an out of date Chrome alongside an updated one ?

What else ?

Simon ML
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  • Facing same situation =/ – gitsitgo Apr 16 '15 at 20:43
  • We are sticking with IE and Firefox. After the recent update from MSFT, Chrome stopped the supporting silverlight completely. – user2526236 Apr 17 '15 at 14:20
  • @DanielHerr We are already rewriting the application to drop Silverlight, but it won't be ready in September – Simon ML Apr 17 '15 at 14:28
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    @smorgan I want to be able to continue to run my application until we finish refactoring it, which won't be ready in September. How could one run a Silverlight application if the only browser available is Chrome ? – Simon ML Apr 17 '15 at 14:32
  • By the way, would people down voting this be kind enough to explain why ? – Simon ML Apr 17 '15 at 14:34
  • I explained why I downvoted your question: 'what's an alternative to Silverlight' is a question too broad to answer, since it sounds like you are asking what an alternative technology to implement something would be without saying the something is. If what you are asking is actually, 'How do I run Silverlight in Chrome once NPAPI support is removed from Chrome' you should edit it to make that clear. – smorgan Apr 18 '15 at 02:51
  • You should still be able to enable it afterwards, just plop this into the chrome address bar `chrome://flags/#enable-npapi` and click "Enable" under NPAPI – Chris W. Apr 20 '15 at 20:16
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    @ChrisW. I believe that this option is only available until September 2015, I will keep it in mind though. – Simon ML Apr 20 '15 at 20:27
  • Ah I thought I read somewhere it will remain, since the plugins remain installed just disabled in chrome explicitly, guess we'll find out. It's always lovely being at the mercy of the corporations lol :) – Chris W. Apr 20 '15 at 20:31
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    @ChrisW.-- Nope, vendors and even the Chromium projects say we only have until Chrome 44; Silverlight support (general npapi support) will be removed from 45 in September 2015 https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation – ps2goat Jun 04 '15 at 12:14
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    Some of us in the corporate and government world have to continue supporting non-html 5 compliant browsers (IE 7-9, anyone?), so migrating to a javascript solution is not as easy. I don't know if I'll even have approval to *start* working on it before September. – ps2goat Jun 04 '15 at 12:17
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    [XAML for HTML5](http://cshtml5.com/) looks promising, though they still seem far from being feature complete. – matt Sep 03 '15 at 13:50
  • Possible duplicate of [Silverlight not working with chrome](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29898021/silverlight-not-working-with-chrome) – John Slegers Feb 22 '16 at 00:59

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Well it seems there is a solution ! I have tried IETab with Chrome Canary (v45) and the dev channel (v46) and even with Silverlight support dropped from those version, the extension allows my application to work flawlessly !

I have reached the support of IETab and they have confirmed Silverlight will continue to work with their plugin when Chrome officialy release version 45.

Try it out : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ie-tab/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd?hl=en

EDIT : As of today, September 3 2015, Chrome 45 is out and IETab still works.

Simon ML
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