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user3177351
user3177351

Reputation: 13

Deprecation of NPAPI-Plugins

In the chromium blog it's mentioned that webpage-instantiated NPAPI plugins are not supported anymore starting in january. (http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html)

Otherwise http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation says that:

Apps and Extensions that use NPAPI plug-ins will not be affected by the initial January 2014 block.

Our extension uses a npapi plugin in the backgroundpage and also inserts one into the contentpages. Has anyone further informations about how the january changes will affect the extension?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 483

Answers (1)

Georg Fritzsche
Georg Fritzsche

Reputation: 98984

The linked pages don't say anything about stopping plugin support in january - they say most plugins will be blocked (i.e. made click-to-play).

The Chromium article says:

Apps and Extensions that use NPAPI plug-ins will not be affected by the initial January 2014 block.
[...]
If your NPAPI plug-in is installed by a wrapper extension and then used by pages on the open web, it will not be affected by the initial January 2014 block. It will follow the Apps/Extension deprecation path instead.

Upvotes: 1

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