![]() maff files stored everywhere and it's absolutely out of the question for me to spend hours converting them, so the easiest and most reliable way to read them is with FF52. Picture looks nice, but not good enough to make up for the security hole left in the wake.I want to point out why it's still pertinent to use FF52 ESR - together with other browsers or even the most recent version of FF.įirst of all, I've got a whole lotta. I was finally able to get the HikVision camera to work on Windows with Internet Explorer (Edge) after installing the NPAPI plugin. On Linux I have fully updated versions of Firefox and Chrome that both don't work w/ this HikVision camera. Only Edge (Windows Explorer) still supports the old Netscape interface.įor reasons of performance, security, and software freedom I've switched from using Windows to Linux. Now Firefox and before it Chrome has abandoned support for the older buggy and insecure plugin interface. I purchased a single HikVision turret camera just to test it out before buying a whole bunch, but quickly ran into this old issue of it not working as described above.įrom what I read Firefox recognized the issues with this plugin a long time ago, and so built the NPAPI features into FireFox natively to fix the issues. That's a pretty bad rap for a security product I think. I like their camera otherwise, but their software is antique, and thus apparently insecure. So I've decided to find another camera supplier. But there has to be a good reason they are dragging their feet on this. If they were to upgrade to the more secure interface they would loose it. I can think of only one thing they might benefit from: Since this old interface is insecure their might be a backdoor security hole they want to keep open. Why indeed? Sadly, I can come to only one conclusion. So why does the HikVision web cam interface continue to require this old, what Firefox calls, buggy, slow, and insecure, NPAPI interface? Clearly, they are a huge company with advanced technical products. * And finally, it can't be that HikVision is technically incapable. Also Chrome is clearly faster and even earlier booted this older interface. (Seems FireFox as of V52 abandoned this antique NetScape interface. * Next, this can't be for better performance, because the newer FireFox's native NPAPI interface that they require was built to be faster and more secure. No support for Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc. * First, the reason can't be for better portability, because they now only work with the Edge browser, and thus only on Windows. Let's investigate what that reason might be? There must be some good reason HikVision is STILL sticking with this old, Netscape era, NPAPI interface. I wouldn't expect this Firefox workaround to last forever unfortunately. However, a similar fix was present in the first version of Google Chrome that removed NPAPI plugins, and this was subsequently patched out. This only works when using TCP transmission protocol - NOT UDP. I have been unable to get this feature to work on the Firefox version of Mac OS X A context window should pop-upįor now, this should work as a temporary workaround to restore full functionality to your Hikvision system. Type about:config in the Firefox address bar – ignore the “are you sure you want to proceed?” page Chrome discontinued support back in September 2015, and you can see the impact this had in our thread on the topic. ![]() ![]() This was announced in the Mozilla Future Releases blog post from October 8th 2015 and has now finally come into effect. This means that, much like Google Chrome, Hikvision users will no longer be able to successfully install the web browser plugin required to view their cameras in Firefox. Unfortunately, the time has finally arrived.Īs of Mozilla Firefox v52.0 released on March 7th, NPAPI plugins are no longer supported.
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