After a reversal of course, reports of the death of the NPAPI implementation of Flash Player for Linux are not only greatly exaggerated -- Adobe also wants to give it a bunch of new code. For the past ...

在此之前，Google Chrome已经停止支持Java、Silverlight这样的浏览器插件，并暂停了对Adobe Flash的支持。 今天，Mozilla官方宣布，Firefox浏览器将在2016年底彻底放弃对NPAPI类插件的支持，但唯一的例外是Flash。 这当然也是无奈之举，因为虽然很多开发者、用户都不喜欢占 ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

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很少有用户对Flash Player的不同版本有所感知。按照浏览器适配版本来分，Flash Player一共分为三个版本，分别为Flash Player ActiveX、Flash Player PPAPI及Flash Player NPAPI，这三个版本适用于IE内核、Chromium内核等不同浏览器。当用户下载的Flash Player版本与当前所使用的浏览器 ...

Mozilla in four weeks will bar plug-ins built using a decades-old technology from Firefox, ending a years-long process designed to make the browser more secure. The single exception to the ban: ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

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Adobe has started blocking Flash content for computer users across the world, now displaying a warning instead that advises them to uninstall Flash Player. After thriving throughout the 1990s and ...

Google Chrome recently dumped support for plugins such as Java and Silverlight, and now it’s Firefox’s turn. Late Thursday, Mozilla announced on its blog that Firefox would stop supporting plugins ...