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Re:Freshplayerplugin – Powered by Chromium's Pepper Flash Pl... by josteink on Monday August 24, 2015 @06:42AM (#10108891)
Looks interesting. Have anyone here tried it and seen how well it works?

IMO in any state it can't be much worse than the current NPAPI does in X11, so I'm interested in anything which can be used to get better FF Video performance.

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Re:Freshplayerplugin – Powered by Chromium's Pepper Flash Pl... by Elhana on Monday August 24, 2015 @08:14AM (#10109195)
Crashes occasionally, but npapi crashed for me as well. Main advantage is that you get new flash version, that some games require to run.
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Re:Freshplayerplugin – Powered by Chromium's Pepper Flash Pl... by i-rinat on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:34PM (#10113042)
> Crashes occasionally

Looks like Mozilla decided to ditch Flash, and now Firefox 40 sometimes hangs completely due to some odd interlocking with plugin-container process.

> Main advantage

... is that accelerated rendering is used where NPAPI Flash was afraid to use it. For example, for transparent plugin instances.

It comes with a price, though. There are more rendering issues, because unusual graphics paths are used.

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