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I can see you decided to implement the same measures with respect to NPAPI related plugins as Google Chrome did. I presume that will be the case also in Dragon when it’s released in June? If so then it is a real shame because I liked your chromium-based browsers, but I will have to go back to Opera which provides a full functionality of these plugins.
Hi and welcome wordblender,
A temporary workaround is to type chrome://flags/#enable-npapi into the address bar and enter.
Select enable of the highlighted entry and relaunch the browser.
Note: The above workaround will most likely be removed from version 45 and above.
Hi captainsticks and many thanks for you response,
I knew about this workaround and have already used it but since you’ve confirmed that it will not work forever I may as well start getting used to Opera now rather than wait until version 45. Although if I could have some influence over Comodo’s decision not to remove this workaround it would be great
Hi wordblender,
I would expect Opera to follow suit in the future.
In the long run it will be up to the plugin Developers to keep up with more secure technology.
In the long run NPAPI support will be pulled from Chromium. Some time after that we will likely follow suit in all platforms. So while NPAPI support exists for now on Windows and Mac don't expect it to remain in the long term.
https://forums.opera.com/discussion/comment/15198179#Comment_15198179
“In the long run” means Chromium 45. See https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation
I agree, I don’t use them and won’t miss them. But I think it’s always best to let the users decide what they would like to use. Just because Google thinks it rules the world doesn’t mean it does.
At least give people the option to use them until there is something (NON-GOOGLE) better to use.