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Re:Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob by cpeterso on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:20PM (#9727355)
Chrome's Flash Player uses PPAPI (Pepper), not NaCl. Pepper Flash is still running Adobe's native code, not NaCl code.
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Re:Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob by mortehu on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:43PM (#9734336)
Aha, I see it's a shared object. It's sandboxed, though, so quite similar to NaCl.

Both NaCl and the plugins are running native code. NaCl is not PNaCl.

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Re:Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob by rockdoe on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:43AM (#9730625)
So it's using the NaCl sandbox and interface without the bytecode parts?
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Re:Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob by cpeterso on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @05:00AM (#9730673)
As I understand it, NaCl is a Pepper plugin, but Pepper does not rely on NaCl. Other Pepper plugins are not necessarily using NaCl.

https://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/wiki/Pepper

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