On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Dean McNamee<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Non-Stick<[email protected]> wrote: >> Before I proceed to build an independent installer, please can you >> advise >> whether or not there are any plans for Chrome to provide such a >> mechanism >> for "automatic NPAPI Plugin downloads" at some point in the future ? > > No, I don't think so.
The problem is security. NPAPI plug-ins can run arbitrary code on your machine. If we made it easier to install NPAPI plug-ins than to run EXEs, all the malware authors would flock to NPAPI just like they've flocked to ActiveX in the past, which used to be (still is?) easier to install than EXEs. Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
