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Re:Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome an... by zbuc on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:21PM (#3819552)
NPAPI is difficult. I couldn't find a working sample project(though I only spent a couple hours) last year when I wanted to try it out.

It sounds like Google is working on a new plugin architecture in JS + HTML that will support the deep interactivity of NPAPI, so we'll see...

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Re:Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome an... by rohitnair on Monday April 09, 2012 @09:49PM (#3820292)
Google already uses the new Pepper Plugin API[1] in the current versions of Chrome. They've also switched projects like Native Client to use this new API instead of NPAPI. PPAPI definitely seems better based on my experience of writing a few Native Client modules.

[1] - http://code.google.com/p/ppapi/

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Re:Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome an... by zbuc on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @04:31PM (#3860026)
Wow, good tip, thanks!
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