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# 28/08/2019: Why does GTK3 Firefox require GTK2?
Firefox only supports Linux builds with GTK3 for some time now, however
GTK2 is still a mandatory dependency. It turns out that GTK2 is required
for NPAPI plugins and the **only** plugin which is still in use is the
Flash Plugin!
You cannot disable NPAPI plugin support which means that **Firefox has a
dependency on GTK2 solely for Flash**. The sole reason that KISS ships
GTK2 is for Firefox, Flash will die some time in 2020 (*possibly 2021*)
so until then we're stuck with GTK2.
Source:
> As long as NPAPI plugins are supported, build dependency on gtk2
> cannot be dropped.
> NPAPI is currently only around to support Flash (bug 1269807). Per
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap, Firefox's
> Flash support (and thus NPAPI support) will be removed sometime in
> 2020.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445>
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