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 ...

Google are to drop support for the ‘Netscape Plugin API’ (NPAPI) – used by Adobe Flash – on Linux builds of Chrome/ium far sooner than was originally planned. The ageing plugin architecture, which ...

Adobe has reversed its decision to kill the NPAPI Flash plugin on Linux, instead deciding that penguinistas deserve some love after four years of neglect. Adobe's notification of the changes includes ...

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 ...

Short Bytes: Adobe has taken a u-turn and released a new beta version for its Flash player plugin for Linux. The company discontinued the plugin long back in 2012. Now, it plans to move the NPAPI ...

if [ -e /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Flash\ Player.plugin/Contents/Info.plist ];then currentinstalledNPAPI=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Flash ...

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Install Flash 10.3 NPAPI plugin for Solaris 2. Install Chromium for Solaris, which I've ported 3. Load site with Flash video What is the expected output? What ...

Uhh, this is a weird one. Adobe has announced that it plans to start supporting Adobe Flash for Linux — 4 years after it abandoned Flash on Linux. Back in 2012 the company said it would not make newer ...

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 ...

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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