The Pale Moon browser is a fork of Firefox/Mozilla that retains support for legacy plugins such as the one that Hikvision asks you to install.

If you use Firefox, check out the ‘Open in IE’ extension.īut what if your Hikvision or other IP camera still refuses to co-operate? Then try our next suggestion. But Chrome removed NPAPI support last year, and IE Tab restores this feature to Chrome. It did this by supporting a technology called NPAPI (the Netscape Plugin API). How does it work? Once upon a time, Chrome used to be able to display these legacy web apps. With over 4 million users currently, this is by far the best option. The IE Tab Chrome extension lets you run legacy web apps such as Hikvision and other brands’ web admin and live-view pages. If you want to make your IP camera live-view or configuration page work with Chrome or Firefox, your best bet is the IE Tab extension for Chrome. There are two simple solutions to this problem:

You get the same message again and again. So you close your browser, install the plugin, restart your browser and….nothing. “Please click here to download and install the plugin-in” If you have a Hikvision IP camera or NVR and have tried to login to the admin page using Firefox, Chrome, or Microsoft Edge, you are probably familiar with this error message:

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