The Pipelight PPA is available for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.

This may slow down the start of your browser.

Pipelight needs to start Wine to execute the pluginloader.

Silverlight might contain (like all other browser plugins) security issues – You may want to enable click-to-play for this plugin to prevent an undesired start of Silverlight.

It is strongly recommended to close your browser before installing! Some browsers try immediately to load the plugin which might fail or crash the browser when the installation is not complete!.

Warning: Before you continue the installation you should note that: As a user you will not notice anything from that “magic” and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows, like you can see on the following screenshot: Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes) the network traffic is send through them. The used pipes do not have any big impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is not send through the pipe. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. Hoover with a new browser plugin that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API.

The project combines the effort by Erich E. Caveat: IE Tab works on Windows only.Pipelight is a special browser plugin allows to run your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser. The extension uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine so you can view Silverlight content. Until which time it becomes impossible to use these technologies, holdouts can still view Silverlight content within the Chrome wrapper. IE Tab emulates Internet Explorer within a Chrome browser window. The IE Tab extension for Chrome is not only useful for displaying web pages with Silverlight content, but also for Sharepoint, Java and ActiveX content too. It is still possible to use Silverlight in Chrome on Windows 10 with a free extension. Those who want to display it using the web’s most popular web browser are at a loss. Yet some Silverlight content remains on the internet. In fact, the option to even enable Silverlight in Chrome was removed by Google in September of 2015. No browser has pushed back against NPAPI plug-ins as hard as Google Chrome. It has become increasingly difficult to access Silverlight content in the browser with every passing year. Watch the Video: How to use Silverlight in Chrome on Windowsīrowser plug-in stalwarts know about the planned move to a plugin-free web by top Internet software companies.

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