You can download it from Mozilla's release repository.įirefox 52 ESR has been replaced with Firefox 60 ESR, but its latest version is somewhat recent, released on June 25 2018.Īs explained above, neither Safari 12, Chrome version 45 or later nor Firefox 52 or later support NPAPI plugins, with the exception of Adobe Flash. To continue using Silverlight on macOS, your 'safest' bet would be Firefox 52 ESR for accessing BI Office. This means that you must use an unsupported browser, with all the risks that entails. The culprit is the technology the plugin is based on: NPAPI, which has been deprecated in all major browsers because of security concerns, the latest of them being Safari with version 12. No, there is no way to make the current version of the Silverlight plugin work with Safari 12.Īs of today, no actively supported web browser on macOS can run the current Silverlight plugin (neither Safari, Chrome nor Firefox, see below for more information). Is there any way to enable the Silverlight Plug-In in Safari 12? In Safari, the test seems to render okay but then I get an error from Safari itself: 'A problem occured with this webpage so it was reloaded', leading to the page being reloaded automatically until Safari gives up and tells me that an error repeatedly occured with the page.This article posted on apple site informs:.However, the test linked above merely offers an 'Install Microsoft Silverlight' icon. In Chrome: I had to use the 'Get more extensions' option inside of Chrome to install.FYI, the plugin is set on 'Always activate' in about:addons and disabling AdBlock did not help. In Firefox: the official 'Get Silverlight' page tells me the plugin is installed ('Silverlight 5 (4.0)'), however the test page linked above renders black.To install, I'm merely using the Silverlight.dmg file and its installer to install. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Silverlight but without success. I had Silverlight version 4 installed before but never got it to work (I don't know if this was before or after my Yosemite update.) (As opposed to a big black square of nothing.) 2) Troubleshooting This should offer a menu and various content, mostly pictures. Tried multiple deletions of the silverlight plugin and re-install, no avail. Running OS X 10.9.2, Safari 7.0.2 and Silverlight 4.0. To start with, can anyone tell me if this Silverlight test works for them on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) ? I went to update my silverlight for netflix the other day (March 11, the day Microsoft released a new version) and after install, all I get is 'Plug-in failure' and a black screen.

I'm not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the Web. I'm trying to get Silverlight to work on Mac OS X, any browser would do.

Running silverlight on mac