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I hope when they are rewriting the browser with modern architecture, they keep in mind the problems which kept this bug alive for more than 12 years now (while all other major browsers fixed it one by one), citing 'foundation' or architectural problems:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414

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There are currently no plans to support plugins, so that bug is not relevant to Servo.

You mean that will again be an 'after thought'?

No, we won't support plugins at all.

Will you support add ons?

Yes, we're thinking about how best to do it. This is the kind of thing where ideas are quite welcome :)

I hope there will be no concept of "not restartless" add-ons. ... Thanks :)

Nit: I wouldn't say we won't, but there are currently no plans to.

In the hypothesis Servo becomes Firefox's engine, this will be a blocker for Danish users. The government-mandated Nem-ID scheme uses a Java applet, and is used everywhere (taxes, banks, school system...).

I'm not sure why this is being downvoted?

A javascript version of Nem-ID is planned for release in 2014 [1].

[1]: http://www.nets.eu/dk-da/Produkter/Sikkerhed/NemID-tjenesteu...

Thank you. Then apt-get purge icedtea-7-plugin icedtea-6-plugin is planned for execution in 2014 as well.

Can you expand on this?

Not a contributor, but from what I gather this is the strategy:

    PDF plugin   -> PDF.js

    Flash plugin -> Shumway.js

    Java Plugin  -> Nope. Good riddance.

    Others       -> Nope

Jetpack Addons on the other hand with are basically JS with access to some of Fx private API and are ported as soon as hooks for that API is made.

Google Talk (/Hangouts) plugin. Silverlight plugin (Netflix, Amazon streaming) There are hundreds (if not thousands) of others. There are some we use to allow exploring 3d CAD models in the browser. HTML5/JS might be the way to go for future, but currently it seems a lot of plugin replacements (including shumway) are not up to the mark.

Tell that to Google, who are actively working on breaking all those plugins in chrome, for everyone, in an attempt to force people to rewrite plugins for the chrome specific Ppapi (which can't do many of the things npapi can)

Why would I tell that to Google? I use Firefox :).

WebRTC?

As far as I know Silverlight's primary draw is DRM. Good riddance.

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