
You should use Internet Explorer on Windows 10. On Windows 10 the default browser is Edge, this is incompatible with Silverlight and MS will not be adding Silverlight support. Other companies seem to have decided that means they’re not going to support Silverlight.įor example, it just won’t work on recent macs using Chrome. Silverlight is currently in end of lifetime support from Microsoft. Obviously, if you see something else like a blank page or a message to install silverlight etc then you have proven there is a problem with your Silverlight and browser combination. If you see a video player straight away then that is rendered using Silverlight. If Silverlight works for you at all then the chances are you need to be talking to whoever provides the website you're trying to use.įollow the link below to a video with some rock climbing. Google has no plans to change this decision and FireFox is likely to follow this decision, some time in 2016.The first thing to check is whether it's really a Silverlight problem you're seeing.
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
Right-click the broken puzzle piece image, and then select Run this Plugin. In the Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows box, click Enable. On the address bar in Chrome, type chrome://flags/#enable-npapi. To work around this issue on versions 42 to 44 of Chrome, follow these Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins from being displayed in the browser. This issue occurs because these versions of Chrome block Netscape Reinstall Silverlight, the issue still occurs. Or that the Install Microsoft Silverlight badge is displayed. That runs Microsoft Silverlight, you see that some content is missing 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.