Microsoft no longer provides updates or security patches for Silverlight. Even if you force it to run, your system is at risk. If you own or maintain a Silverlight application:
| Priority | Action | |----------|--------| | | Audit all Silverlight dependencies | | High | Rewrite using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript framework (React, Angular, Vue, Blazor) | | Medium | For legacy internal tools, use IE mode in Edge temporarily | | Low | Use a legacy browser on an isolated, non-internet-connected machine | silverlight in chrome
Silverlight was a browser plugin, similar to Flash. When Chrome dropped NPAPI, Silverlight was effectively blocked from loading. | Chrome Version | Silverlight Support | |----------------|---------------------| | Chrome 44 and older | ✅ Works (if NPAPI manually enabled) | | Chrome 45–86 | ❌ No native support | | Chrome 87+ (current) | ❌ No native support | | Chrome Enterprise | ❌ No official support | Microsoft no longer provides updates or security patches