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browarod

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Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« on: April 23, 2015, 11:05:45 AM »
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I discovered today that I am no longer able to load the Redemption Live Visualizer in Chrome, it just keeps prompting me to install Silverlight (even though I already have it).

I checked online and it seems to be something in Chrome, Google is phasing out support/compatibility with certain technologies.

Is anyone else having this problem currently? I can access the Visualizer in Firefox normally, but Chrome is my primary browser most of the time so I'm wondering if anyone knows of a work-around.
« Last Edit: April 23, 2015, 11:11:36 AM by browarod »

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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2015, 02:49:46 PM »
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All major browsers are moving towards this, they're disabling a decades old technology that is the primary cause of virus/malware injection through ads. Chrome just killed it, Firefox is killing it in 2016, and Microsoft's new browser "Project Spartan" doesn't include it. You can reenable it go to

chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

and click the enable npapi button. This is temporary and will only work until this flag is permanently removed from chrome in September, so the long term solution is that Redemption visualizer needs to be updated to use a technology that doesn't rely on this technology. I'm not sure if Silverlight (the plugin used to make Redemption Visualizer) is updated to use a newer standard, so Redemption Visualizer may have to be completely rewritten. I believe Netflix uses Silverlight and that's still working so it may be possible to just update Redemption Visualizer to a newer version of Silverlight.

tl:dr;
Go here to temporarily reeanble it chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

Long term, if not updated, Redemption Visualizer will be effectively dead by next year
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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2015, 02:56:07 PM »
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That's actually one of the things I tried earlier, and I just went there and verified it's Enabled (the option at the provided address is to Disable it) but the Visualizer still doesn't load.

Thanks for the info! I'll just have to start getting used to not using the Visualizer since I doubt it's going to be updated.

Here's hoping someone makes a shiny, new version! haha :P

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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2015, 03:51:19 PM »
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I believe it was mentioned, but I would pitch in $10 if someone would make a new one, and if enough people pitch in enough money, than someone who made the last one could make it again.
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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2015, 03:59:03 PM »
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Here's hoping someone makes a shiny, new version! haha :P
You should have voted for option #1 here.  :P

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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2015, 04:24:57 PM »
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Here's hoping someone makes a shiny, new version! haha :P
You should have voted for option #1 here.  :P
Silly me, I thought I HAD voted there. Consider this a late vote for #1. :P

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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2015, 04:36:48 PM »
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Does the visualizer include the latest expansions?

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Re: Redemption Live Visualizer Not Working in Chrome
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2015, 04:40:35 PM »
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No it doesn't have anything after Tin 25 (so no I/J, Tin 26, or Early Church). But it's useful for me when I'm working on my Land of Redemption articles because I can look at just the 10 cards from any specific of the tins, or click multiple tins and look at the combined set of cards without having to rummage through my collection for them, lol.

 


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