
Google has no plans to change this decision and FireFox is likely to follow this decision, some time in 2016. So, from Chrome 45 onwards, it is no longer possible to run Silverlight in Chrome. Silverlight content to access a Silverlight page. On Chrome version 45 or a later version of Chrome, there is no
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Or that the Install Microsoft Silverlight badge is displayed. Things stay the same for Firefox and Chrome though. That runs Microsoft Silverlight, you see that some content is missing A quick update: with Silverlight 6.0 installed, it now works in Safari (the test above does). When you use Google Chrome (version 42.0 or later) to access a website It is no longer possible to run Silverlight (or any other plug-ins that rely on NPAPI) in Chrome.

NPAPI was completely removed from Chrome in version 45 released on Sept. In other words, Chrome will likely never support Silverlight again. I think you can take that to mean that Microsoft has no intention of creating a new Silverlight plugin for Chrome that does not rely on NPAPI.

I have read elsewhere (see this article by Chris Merriman) that Microsoft's response was that there are other Silverlight capable browser alternatives to Chrome. This is only a temporary solution, however, as they plan on removing that option entirely by, I believe, September. Once you do that, the Silverlight plugin will be available again in the plugins section (along with many other plugins). At the moment they have just disabled NPAPI, You can reenable it by:Įntering chrome://flags/#enable-npapi in Chrome's address bar Rather, Chrome no longer supports the underlying protocol that Silverlight relies on, NPAPI.
