Disclaimer
Nextpad++ is an independent community port and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Notepad++ project.
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Nextpad++ is macOS native editor for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Nextpad++ is an independent community port and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Notepad++ project.
Nextpad++ is macOS native editor for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
If you are trying to access a legacy government or business website that still requires Silverlight, you cannot use Google Chrome. You must use one of the following alternatives:
Silverlight relied on a legacy architecture called (Netscape Plugin API), which Google permanently removed from Chrome in September 2015 (starting with Chrome version 45) due to security risks and performance issues.
Use Microsoft Edge with IE Mode for legacy internal apps, or migrate to a modern web technology as soon as possible.
Open Microsoft Edge and go to Settings > Default browser .
Nextpad++ is a free, open-source source code editor that supports many programming languages and is great for general text editing. No Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation layer is needed — this is an independent native Notepad++ port governed by the GNU General Public License.
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Nextpad++ for Mac is written in Objective C++ and uses pure platform-native APIs to ensure higher execution speed and a smaller program footprint. I hope you enjoy Nextpad++ on macOS as much as I enjoy bringing it to the Mac. google chrome silverlight
This project is an open-source and independent community port of Notepad++ to macOS, started on March 1, 2026. It is distributed as an Apple Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized Universal Binary, runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs, and contains no telemetry, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The full source is available at github.com/nextpad-plus-plus/nextpad-plus-plus-macos. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org. If you are trying to access a legacy
If you are trying to access a legacy government or business website that still requires Silverlight, you cannot use Google Chrome. You must use one of the following alternatives:
Silverlight relied on a legacy architecture called (Netscape Plugin API), which Google permanently removed from Chrome in September 2015 (starting with Chrome version 45) due to security risks and performance issues.
Use Microsoft Edge with IE Mode for legacy internal apps, or migrate to a modern web technology as soon as possible.
Open Microsoft Edge and go to Settings > Default browser .