Silverlight DRM is still widely used to play TV content and is designed as an alternative to Adobes outdated Flash Player.

However, Microsoft continues to provide bug fixes and patches for Silverlight.

Since then, no Silverlight plug-in has been developed for Microsoft Edge.

This makes a lot of content immediately available to Microsoft Edge users also.

In the upper right corner of Internet Explorer, you will find the wrench icon, this is the menu.

If all goes well, you should now see Microsoft Silverlight from Microsoft Corporation in the add-ons you have loaded.

Now the Silverlight plug-in for Internet Explorer is activated.

The Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (yes Netscape, its that old) NPAPI is no longer supported by Google Chrome.

The IE Tab browser extension allows you to use Silverlight in Chrome, and not only Silverlight but also Java, Active X, and the SharePoint plug-in.

The IE tab extension for Google Chrome is now installed in Google Chrome.

This ietabhelper file is needed to display Internet Explorer in Google Chrome.

After that, the Silverlight plug-in will be available for use in Google Chrome.

You can also remove the IE Tab extension this way by clicking Remove from Chrome.

In version 56 there was still a method to activate NPAPI plug-ins, but this method does not work anymore.

After that, you will need to disable automatic updates in Firefox.

Then click on Safari in the top left menu and select Preferences from the menu.

It is, unfortunately, waiting until Microsoft provides support for Silverlight in Safari 12 until then you can best use Google Chrome and the IE tab plugin.

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