Re: How to enable npapi plugins which are placed in "page-worker" page of Firefox extension?

powentan <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:32:52 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.plugins
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Georg Fritzsche於 2014年7月30日星期三UTC+8下午8時29分49秒寫道:
> I suppose this is a restartless extension?
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> For that we have this bug open: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989967
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> For non-restartless extensions you can bundle plugins and have them automatically activated already:
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982101
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> There was some relevant discussion here:
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931705
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> I don’t have experience with the addons SDK , so i’d suggest to ask on dev-extensions for further questions on the missing chrome privileges problem:
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> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-extensions
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> Georg
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> On 30 Jul 2014, at 05:34, powentan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Georg Fritzsche於 2013年11月16日星期六UTC+8上午5時18分59秒寫道:
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> >> On Nov 15, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Paul Heil <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:44:43 AM UTC-5, Georg Fritzsche wrote:
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> >>>> If you have chrome privileges, you can activate the plugin yourself for now:
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> >>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834918#c3
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> >>> Thanks too, I wouldn't have figured out how to do that for a while.  Not sure about that "for now" part, but I'll take what I can get.
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> >> When bug 834918 is fixed, this shouldn't be needed anymore for plugins embedded in Chrome content - hence the "for now".
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> >> Georg
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> > Hi Georg,
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> > The solution works on XUL-based extension.
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> > But when it comes to the extension which uses firefox addon sdk, I encounter a problem.
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> > My environment is Firefox 31 at Mac, and my extension will create NPAPI plugin on the sdk/page-worker.
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> > The problem is if I want to use "obj.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIObjectLoadingContent).playPlugin()" to enable my NPAPI plugin, I need to use "Components.interfaces" and "QueryInterface" which are chrome privilege on firefox addon sdk.
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> > And I don't find a way to use chrome privilege on page-worker page.
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> > I also try to send NPAPI plugin object from page-worker page to main.js, but I also can't find a solution.
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> > From my understanding, the page-worker should be a part of my extension, so if the user agrees to install my extension, NPAPI plugin should be whitelisted or there should be a way to enable it implicitly.
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> > Is there any way to enable NPAPI plugin on page-worker page?
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> > Powen
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Thanks for your information !

I have tried the solution in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931705, but still not working.
So I post a question on mozilla.dev.extensions for further help.

Powen
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