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NPAPI Support? - JD2 - 08-08-2015
I have yet to try CentBrowser, but I am looking for a Chromium-based browser that still has and will maintain NPAPI plug-in support in the future. Does CentBrowser still support NPAPI plug-ins like the Unity engine web plug-in? Google has completely removed NPAPI support in the latest builds of Chromium and Chrome.
RE: NPAPI Support? - Admini - 08-08-2015
Before Chromium 45, you can enable NPAPI support in chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
From later versions, NPAPI will be completely removed from Chromium.And I don't think there will be Chromium-based browsers that support NPAPI all the time.
Don't be frustrated, porting from NPAPI to NativeMessagingHost(the new mechanism) is not so difficult for the plugin providers.
RE(2): NPAPI Support? - JD2 - 08-09-2015
NPAPI is now completely removed from official Chromium. The flag or command-line switch to enable it no longer works. However, there is no technical reason why source ports of Chromium like CentBrowser couldn't continue to support NPAPI plug-ins as the source code for NPAPI support is still available. Therefore my question is will CentBrowser support NPAPI?
(08-08-2015, 12:17 PM)CentBrowser Wrote: Don't be frustrated, porting from NPAPI to NativeMessagingHost(the new mechanism) is not so difficult for the plugin providers.
It is difficult enough that many major plug-in providers like Unity have not migrated and have no plans to do it. And, even if Unity ported its plug-in, it would do nothing to run the tens of thousands of web-based games which have already been released and rely on the NPAPI plug-in.