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C.W. - Tue, 2015/04/28 - 15:00
With Microsoft and Google moving away from Java compatibility with their latest browsers, where does this leave the webmin plugins which utilize Java? Are there any plans to move to some other code for the interafce, such as HTML 5 or similar?
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Because MS & Google dropped NPAPI and Oracle won't recode
As for Spartan, that is slightly different (although somewhat the same) because MS never supported NPAPI anyway so Java has historically used ActiveX - which has been dropped in Spartan. So again technically it's not dropping Java support, just support for the plugin architecture that the Oracle Java plugin currently uses...
So at this point in time it looks like if you want to use any Java applets you'll need to keep Firefox and/or IE11 handy...
But back to your actual question (sorry for the side-track). I have no idea what the Webmin devs plan to do. FWIW TurnKey only package their software and pre-install it on TurnKey. We don't have any sway or influence. I would imagine that they will move towards a HTML5/Javascript implementation. But I only say that because it's what I'd do if I was a Webmin dev! :) I do not have any more info than you!
Instead they may say that Webmin File Manager only works in Firefox and IE11 and that if you want to use it, you need to use one of those browsers!?
So long and the short is that please ask Webmin devs. It looks like they have a mailing list and a forum. If you get a good answer I'd love to hear so please post back.
PS please excuse my rambling answer... :)
webmin java and chrome
At the moment there is no answer for Webmin.
However Java website gave instruction as to how to re-activate NPAPI for latest Chrome version.
[ https://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml ]
As of Chrome Version 42, an additional configuration step is required to continue using NPAPI plugins.
chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
This was only suppose too
This was only suppose too work until Sept. 2015.
So IE or Firefox will be only options then...
Use IE Tab in Chrome to allow Webmin to not be sluggish
I have had sluggish response in Chrome since the middle part of July 2015. Today, 8/03/2015 I decided to use the IE Tab in Chrome to access Webmin and it seems to work fine, just like it used to. First, I enabled NPAPI using the chrome://flags/#enable-npapi that Jermey had mentioned previously in this thread. The IE Tab is available in the Chrome Web Store. Note that I am using this on my Windows 7 desktop PC with Chrome Version 44.0.2403.125.
Webmin are working on an HTML5/JavaScript file manager
Please see this thread on our issue tracker for further info.
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