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Why did NPAPI Plugins fall out of use? will we ever see their return? (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, the issue was they were moving to sandboxing and NPAPI plugins had a lot of issues with security at the time. There was a new flash vulnerability almost every week, and usually it meant getting a lot of control over the browser.

[–] i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i kind of miss it, because there was an tribute game called aot tribute game it was very fun, i used to play it alot back in 2015, and i remember it only ran on firefox after chrome booted out NPAPI