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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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