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Did NPAPI support in Firefox and Chrome really stop?

I recently found out that Chrome and Firefox are phasing out support for NPAPI plugins by January 2013. In any case, reading the blog posts with great attention, it seems that NPAPI plugins will be disabled by default and actually impossible to use.

What will happen? Will I be able to use the NPAPI plugin in Chrome / Firefox after January 2013? This is a fairly complex corporate plugin, so we would like to avoid reusing it.

chrome dev blog post

Starting in January 2014, Chrome will block NPAPI plugins with the default web page on a stable channel.

firefox dev blog post

To give people more control over their browser, Firefox will no longer activate most plugins by default .

I also found another post on the Firefox Dev blog saying that I can try the new plugin management system in Firefox Nightly. This was enough to set Always Activate to make the plugin work. Would that be so?

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The phrases “default block” and “no longer active by default” refer to things that look, in general, like the last message you contacted. Also, users will not be able to use NPAPI plugins. They will require users to explicitly approve the creation of instances of NPAPI plugins.

However, the Chromium blog also says: "In the end, however, NPAPI support will be completely removed from Chrome." When this happens, it will be impossible to load NPAPI plugins in Chrome.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/956275/

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