Install Canonical’s Ubuntu Internet Browser on Linux Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. As we all known that Ubuntu includes Firefox browser, by default. But this may come to an end, Sadly, Mozilla is dropping the NPAPI support by the end of 2016. NPAPI allows browsers to run complex media plugins which leveraged audio, video and other new age files.
NPAPI stands for Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface and was an innovation when it was first introduced in Netscape Navigator 2.0, way back in 1995. As the web technology advanced, HTML5, CSS3, and various W3C-developed Web APIs have evolved and the NPAPI had slowly become useless. Chrome and Edge have already dropped support for NPAPI plugins.
Adobe’s Flash will be the only NPAPI-based plugin which will be supported in Firefox, after 2016. The upcoming version of 64bit Firefox will not support NPAPI plugins from the get-go.
Read Here https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
Bryan Quigley, Canonical Developer wrote
“If we do nothing for 16.04 LTS, then for Firefox: 8 months after released all plugins (aside from flash) stop working 10 months after release Flash is no longer maintained. Flash 11.2 has also become less useful thanks to dependencies on hal which is no longer in Ubuntu, so many sites just don’t work. These are really only relevant if we can get Adobe to commit to support Flash 11.2 for longer. I’m happy to ask upstream if we can have some people from Mozilla join us in a UDS session too, but it makes sense to hash this out a bit here first.”
Few day ago Jonas Echterhoff wrote that the Web Player, Unity 5.2 and 5.3 will still be able to publish Web Player content, but Unity 5.4 (to be released in March 2016) will no longer ship with Web Player support. The Web Player will then become an unsupported product. Which means, with Unity 5.4, the only option to generate web content in Unity is our WebGL export. It is worthy to note that WebGL is not a plugin and hence the WebGL content runs without requiring any plugin installed. But there are some limitations which are defined by the platform – such as restrictions on the networking protocols you can use, which are mandated by security concerns.
Ubuntu Web Browser
The Ubuntu Web Browser is a lightweight web browser tailored for Linux Ubuntu, based on the Oxide browser engine and using the Ubuntu UI components.
It is the default web browser for Ubuntu Phone OS. It is also included by default in the recent Ubuntu desktop releases. Ubuntu also includes Chrome, Opera and other browsers that can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 can install Canonical’s Ubuntu Web Browser, via the following command:
sudo apt-get install webbrowser-app
Once installed, open the Ubuntu Web Browser via Ubuntu Dash.
Features of Canonical Web Browser
The Ubuntu Web Browser supports the bottom edge method. The bottom edge is easily accessible at any time and ergonomically friendly to the typical one-hand phone hold. Bottom edge gesture will have three stages:
- Dragging from the bottom edge will hint and reveal the most recently viewed tab
- Continue dragging and the full tab spread is revealed
- Keep on dragging and browser history will be fully revealed.
All elements will support gestural interaction: user can swipe to delete a tab or a website from history.
You can read about all the other features in detail at http://design.canonical.com/2014/05/the-browser-is-dead-long-live-the-browser/