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JG's avatar
JG
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Oct 09, 2015

"Mozilla to boot all plugins from Firefox … except Flash: NPAPI plugins get death date of Christmas 2016"

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/09/mozilla_to_boot_all_plugins_from_firefox_except_flash/ .   How exactly is F5 going to be affected?   There has been an F5 article about its use of ...
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amolari
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Oct 13, 2015

here some information: sol15326: Browser plugin support for BIG-IP APM features

 

That means F5 APM team will have some work to do to bring out an Edge client which is fully standalone and support for VPN-SSL without it won't be possible (if MS goes the same with plugin/activ-x demotion) or limited.

 

Hopefully they start from scratch (actually, it's mostly legacy software from the Firepass era) and include (again, as it was with Firepass), the AppTunnel support in Edge client.

 

Alex