Earlier I wrote that turning on NPAPI plugin support to Chrome is a kind of task for "power users". I have found some instructions how to do it and perhaps it is not that bad. If using Java is still critical, you can give your users short and clear instructions. Which ones?
If you update your Chrome to the version 42, you will discover that the browser no longer displays a Java applet. The NPAPI plugin support is phased out in accordance to their plan as I wrote earlier.
In the end of 2014, Google updated their plans to phase out NPAPI (and, therefore, Java) support. In short, we have one more quarter to prepare. Let's elaborate.
Since the date of Java shutdown in Chrome is approaching, I would like to write a review of Java uploader vs. its HTML5 counterpart. What features you will lose if you switch from Java to HTML5? Are they critical? Let's try to figure out.
About one year ago Google announced that they want to clean up Chrome from 90es legacy and remove NPAPI support (and, therefore, get rid of Java plugin). The transitional period is about to finish. What it means for Aurigma's Java uploader?
When Oracle released Java 7 Update 45 several months ago, I noticed a strange behavior - if the user decides not to update Java, the uploader starts working incorrectly (although it was working great a day ago).
New Java update has been released yesterday (Jan 14, 2014). If you are curious what that have changed there this time, you can take a look into an official changelog.
Oracle continues to torture their loveless stepchild called Java, as well as browser vendors do. They "improved security" which usually equals to "created unexpected headache to millions of the users with no visible reason". We tried our best to overcome the aftermath of this update and rolled out Upload Suite 8.0.52.
Oracle strikes again. In their fight for Java security, they released an update which made all our uploaders inoperable. Fortunately, it was not so difficult to release a fix for this problem (Upload Suite 8.0.33), but all our customers have to update their uploaders on their sites.
Today we released new File Downloader 7 This new release includes Java-based file downloader, so the product now supports not only Internet Explorer but all widespread web browsers.