Microsoft terminated support for Silverlight on Internet Explorer 11 (the last remaining web browser still supporting Silverlight) on October 12, 2021.

Silverlight was one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone, but web pages using Silverlight did not run on the Windows Phone or Windows Mobile versions of Internet Explorer, as there was no Silverlight plugin for Internet Explorer on those platforms. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, later versions supported multimedia, graphics, and animation, and gave support to developers for CLI languages and development tools. A plugin for Silverlight is still available for a very small number of browsers. Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich web applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash. Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Symbian OS Īpplication framework, run-time environment and multimedia framework For other uses, see Silverlight (disambiguation).Ĩ.0 (January 15, 2019 4 years ago ( )) In Safari, the test seems to render okay but then I get an error from Safari itself: 'A problem occured with this webpage so it was reloaded', leading to the page being reloaded automatically until Safari gives up and tells me that an error repeatedly occured with the page.'Silverlight' redirects here.However, the test linked above merely offers an 'Install Microsoft Silverlight' icon. In Chrome: I had to use the 'Get more extensions' option inside of Chrome to install.FYI, the plugin is set on 'Always activate' in about:addons and disabling AdBlock did not help.

In Firefox: the official 'Get Silverlight' page tells me the plugin is installed ('Silverlight 5 (4.0)'), however the test page linked above renders black.To install, I'm merely using the Silverlight.dmg file and its installer to install.

I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Silverlight but without success. I had Silverlight version 4 installed before but never got it to work (I don't know if this was before or after my Yosemite update.) (As opposed to a big black square of nothing.) 2) Troubleshooting This should offer a menu and various content, mostly pictures. To start with, can anyone tell me if this Silverlight test works for them on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) ? I'm not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the Web. I'm trying to get Silverlight to work on Mac OS X, any browser would do.

Running silverlight on mac