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This makes plugins that do not have a PPAPI plugin counterpart incompatible with Chrome, such as Java, Silverlight and Unity. However, NPAPI support could be enabled through the chrome://flags menu, until the release of version 45 on September 1, 2015, that removed NPAPI support entirely.
Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. [2] [3] One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code, while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code). [2] The most popular browser, Google Chrome, [4] has over 100,000 extensions available [5] but stopped supporting plug-ins in ...
CEF 3 is a multi-process implementation based on the Chromium Content API and has performance similar to Google Chrome. [6] It uses asynchronous messaging to communicate between the main application process and one or more render processes (Blink + V8 JavaScript engine).
An ActiveX control that hosts plugins – a replacement for plugin.ocx that was removed from Internet Explorer. Book on Programming Netscape Plug-Ins by Zan Oliphant; Nixysa: A glue code generation framework for NPAPI plugins. Apache 2.0 license. NPAPI Tutorial Building a Firefox Plugin (Part two, Part three, Part four) Opera 15+ extensions ...
NoScript can force the browser to always use HTTPS when establishing connections to some sensitive sites, in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. This behavior can be triggered either by the websites themselves, by sending the Strict Transport Security header, or configured by users for those websites that don't support Strict Transport Security yet.
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that extends the functionality of an existing software system without requiring the system to be re-built. A plug-in feature is one way that a system can be customizable .
Pepper Plugin API, or PPAPI [28] [29] is a cross-platform API for Native Client-secured web browser plugins, first based on Netscape's NPAPI, then rewritten from scratch. It was used in Chromium and Google Chrome to enable the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash [30] and the built-in PDF viewer. [31]
Greasemonkey is a userscript manager made available as a Mozilla Firefox extension.It enables users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing).