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Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a deprecated application programming interface (API) for web browser plugins, initially developed for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1995 and subsequently adopted by other browsers. In the NPAPI architecture, a plugin declares content types (e.g. "audio/mp3") that it can handle. When the ...
Flashpoint Archive (formerly BlueMaxima's Flashpoint) is an archival and preservation project that allows browser games, web animations and other general rich web applications to be played in a secure format, after all major browsers removed native support for NPAPI/PPAPI plugins in the mid-to-late 2010s as well as the plugins' deprecation.
In contrast to CGI programs, NSAPI SAFs can be configured to run at different stages of request processing. For example, while processing a single HTTP request, different NSAPI SAFs can be used to authenticate and authorize the remote user, map the requested URI to a local file system path, generate the web page, and log the request.
As of 13 May 2010, Google's open source browser, Chromium, was the only web browser to use the new browser plug-in model. [35] As of 2020, Pepper is supported by Chrome, Chromium and Blink layout engine-based browsers such as Opera and Microsoft Edge.
Basilisk uses the Australis theme used by Firefox from versions 29 to 56. [12] It uses the Goanna rendering engine. The browser supports modern web browsing, including support for ECMAScript 6 on release and modern web cryptography standards, NPAPI plugins, classic Firefox addons, ALSA on Linux, WebAssembly (WASM), and allows for unsigned extensions.
Web Environment Integrity (WEI) is an abandoned API proposal previously under development for Google Chrome. [1] A Web Environment Integrity prototype existed in Chromium , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but was removed in November 2023 after extensive criticism by many tech groups. [ 4 ]
Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) is a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology for running Android applications on desktop and laptop computers in an isolated environment. It allows applications to be safely run from a web browser, independent of user operating system, at near-native speeds.
In March 1998, Netscape split off most of the Communicator code and put it under an open source license. [2] The project was dubbed Mozilla.It was estimated that turning the gutted source code (all proprietary elements had to be removed) into a new browser release might take a year, and so it was decided that the next release of the corporate Netscape browser, version 5.0, would be based on it.