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NPAPI and the Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/
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NPAPI And The Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us who use traditional Ne…

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Job Bautista Dec 16

All I want for Christmas is a better media player than #VLC as an #NPAPI plugin that supports #Windows x64 (it could've been Windows Media Player but sadly it's 32-bit only

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Job Bautista Dec 6

Man I wish Windows Media Player's #NPAPI plugin had a 64-bit version, because VLC sucks so much. It doesn't even do volume control per-tab or plugin instance...

Job Bautista Nov 1

Apparently the latest 2.53.22 version of #SeaMonkey no longer has binaries for 32-bit x86. I suppose it makes sense since they removed #NPAPI support (which I think is still a mistake, and ironically NPAPI could've helped them with the increasing amount of websites being designed only with Chrome in mind with an add-on like #SubWebView: https://github.com/teknixstuff/subwebview) so might as well make release engineering a bit easier.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements

GitHub - teknixstuff/subwebview: View web pages using Chromium or IE inside another browser

View web pages using Chromium or IE inside another browser - teknixstuff/subwebview

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njsg Jul 30, 2024

@kate Not surprising, but still puzzling because flash isn't that old, and I'd say any sufficiently serious overview of web history would mention plugins at least in passing.

And I'm sure some Flash material could count as examples of what not to do.

I mean, even if some of the uses (most notably website navigation menus, and also website text+images content) were bad, one would think it'd still pop up.

#Shockwave #Flash #ComputingHistory #NPAPI #ActiveX

Mikel Mastodon Jun 15, 2019

Firefox 69: Flash Player kann nicht länger dauerhaft aktiviert werden

📌 Ab sofort ist es für Nutzer der Nightly-Version von Firefox 69 nicht länger möglich, den Adobe Flash Player dauerhaft zu aktivieren. Damit setzt Mozilla erwartungsgemäß den nächsten Schritt des lange im Vorfeld angekündigten Plans um,

#Firefox #Firefox69 #FlashPlayer #NightlyVersion #AdobeFlashPlayer #Mozilla #NPAPI #Plugin #SörenHentzschel

https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/firefox-69-flash-player-kann-nicht-langer-dauerhaft-aktiviert-werden/

Firefox 69: Flash Player kann nicht länger dauerhaft aktiviert werden

Ab sofort ist es für Nutzer der Nightly-Version von Firefox 69 nicht länger möglich, den Adobe Flash Player dauerhaft zu aktivieren.

heise online (inoffiziell)Mar 22, 2018

Die jüngste Vorschauversion des Browsers streicht die NPAPI-Unterstützung. Alte Plug-ins funktionieren somit nicht länger, mit einer berühmt-berüchtigten Ausnahme. https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Apples-Browser-Safari-killt-Plug-ins-ausser-Flash-4001433.html #Apple #Browser #NPAPI #Safari #Webkit

Apples Browser Safari killt Plug-ins – außer Flash

Die jüngste Vorschauversion des Browsers streicht die NPAPI-Unterstützung. Alte Plug-ins funktionieren somit nicht länger, mit einer berühmt-berüchtigten Ausnahme.

Zorak Mar 9, 2017

Long live our brave new #pluginless #HTML5 world! About time, #Firefox 52. #npapi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#Deprecation