Re: Howto get an NPAPI plugin added to the whitelist ?

Good to hear that NPAPI plugins will remain possible with Firefox.

It is the only browser independent native plugin API, so Google's
strategy is moving to a closed environment.

Is it possible to add NPAPI plugins to official catalogs or the marketplace?

Does it need to be wrapped as XPI then, or is XPI legacy as well for NPAPI?

- OL

Am Freitag, 15. November 2013 14:23:18 UTC+1 schrieb Benjamin Smedberg:
> On 11/15/2013 2:19 AM, ron wrote:
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> > source: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html
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> > Question: How can I get the NPAPI pluging added to the whitelist ?
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> Are you asking about the Chrome whitelist or Firefox? If you're asking 
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> about Chrome, you would need to talk to the Chrome engineering team 
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> directly, as they probably don't monitor this list.
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> Mozilla's position on plugins is represented here: 
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> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/ 
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> Plugins are considered a legacy technology, but we don't have any plans 
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> to remove NPAPI from our desktop products in the near future.
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> Chrome's plan to remove NPAPI seems like unrealistic posturing to me.
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> At the present time, we are whitelisting Flash but no other plugins in 
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> Firefox. We are discussing the option of whitelisting some other plugins 
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> for a while (maybe a year) while they work on transitioning to web 
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> technologies. Currently we don't have a decision on policy on this issue.
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> --BDS