NPAPI plugins are supposed to act like any normal software. These are DLLs.
The only difference is that it is invoked\triggered by the browser through a
certain API.
Try these pages for reference and guidance -
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.html

☆PhistucK


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 19:15, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> Oh! Sorry to here that. Can you tell me if I use NPAPI, what kind of
> scope it has? I mean what are the restrictions does it has in
> accessing the file system and reading,writing?
> Can you please explain it a bit?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Oct 30, 6:16 pm, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are no plans to support a file system API for now.
> > You can use NPAPI for interacting with the file system, but that is C++
> > development and it would probably be complicated a little to save a whole
> > web page, with all of its nested resources.
> >
> > ☆PhistucK
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 08:24, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm writing an extension that requires to save web pages in a given
> > > folder (by user) in Local Hard Drive.
> > > I want to know that whether the access to hard drive is restricted for
> > > extensions? If it's the case what options do I have to get this done?
> >
> > > Any help will be deeply appreciated!
> >
>

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