Game Blend writes "When streaming content to your PC
, mobile phone or TV using the Microsoft Silverlight tech, you will now be able to do so with SRS 5.1 digital surround sound support. The announcement about the partnership ensures that anything Silverlight related will now feature the capabilities to provide listeners with non-crappy sound."
Maximum PC: Microsoft will not support its own Silverlight web plug-in in Edge, the next generation browser that was formerly known as Project Spartan. Instead, the company is going all-in with HTML5 specifications, the company confirmed in a blog post.
Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ("Netscape Plugin API") to extend the browser, and with Chrome 42, that API is now off by default.
InfoQ- Stating that “NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity”, Google has announced that it intends to remove the Netscape Plug-in API. Also known as NPAPI, this is the plug-in technology used host application runtimes such as Silverlight, Java, and Unity. They are beginning the process in January by disabling all plugins not a small whitelist.
I use Firefox as well, but applaud them with this. Java is annoying as hell, never functions, and should be considered a virus.....
