Quoteguenter p.s. Es ist der Trend. Dorian wird den Code eine Weile weiter so nutzen können. Wenn er die GRE kompiliert. Danch ist es eine Frage, wieviel sie an grundlegenden Funktionen ändern, auf die es beruht. & ob er dafür Zeit hat, wenn sie viel ändern. Da ist auch die Frage, wie viele Plugins dann noch zu unterstützen übrig bleiben - also, ob es sich lohnt Zeit darin zu inve
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QuoteKM2005 The insecurity is not only with plugins built with the intension to be used maliciously. A large part of the insecurty is with widely used internet-intefacing plugins that are regularly exploited, ie Flash, Java, Acrobat Reader--which at times are updated only for security reasons every few weeks, or so. Hm agreed, that is a use case for sandboxed environments like Nacl/Pepper. O
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Hello, I started a thread on this in the General forums, because didn't know about this forum... but maybe here is a better place for this topic: http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,135734 What do you think? -- EL
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Quoteguenter Seems NPAPI support according to Wikipedia is moved to/replaced by Google NaCL & PEPER by some browser vendors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client#Pepper Yes, just by Google. The others follow in some aspects. But NaCl is not the same as NPAPI, and is in one aspect not a valid substitution: there is no access to syste
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Quoteguenter When that code is changed? Firefox wants to drop the support obviously at the end of 2016 in stable. Then there is still the ESR releases, so I think that the code will be for some more time in some certain Gecko releases. The Gecko in Seamonkey is older, so maybe the NPAPI will be there a few months longer than in the FF-ESR releases (I don't know about Seamonkey's pla
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QuoteJamesD Does this mean that I will not be able have a pdfviewer plugin in my root\browser\plugins folder? I currently use npPdfViewer.dll from an old Sumatra version. NPAPI was the netscape plugin API. In the old days it was bringing to us the integration of PDF views, Flash, Java applets and other things. In the past, like 10-15 years ago it was important to have them. Nowadays, most of t
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Hey there, Recent news suggest that Firefox/Mozilla will drop the support for NPAPI plugins at the end of 2016: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/ What is Kmeleons point of view on this? Will NPAPI be continued in Kmeleon or dropped as well with new Gecko releases? -- EL
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