For those following this discussion, the issues (raised on http://crbug.com)
relating to running NPAPI Plugins under Chrome remain outstanding.
15745 Chrome does not support the HTML EMBED tag pluginspage
attribute
15835 NPAPI Plugin support appears to be broken in the latest
dev-channel
Are there any javascript errors in the developer console? (page -
developer - javascript console)
I couldn't see any errors in the javascript console.
If you go to chrome://extensions/ do
you see your extension listed?
Yes, my plugin is listed in chrome://extensions, and all the
Your best bet is to file a bug with references to the needed files
so that someone here can try to reproduce your problem.
OK. I will see if I can produce a cut-down version of my plugin and
submit a bug.
Done. Raised as Issue 15835 NPAPI Plugin support appears to be
broken in the
Chrome and Safari don't support the pluginspage attribute. The best way to
get this small feature request on our radar is to file a bug.
Will do.
What is the procedure for filing a Chrome bug ? I did a search and
found the page http://code.google.com/chromium which contains the link
Make
My plugin stopped working as of the beginning of this week.
This is peculiar, as I have not changed anything of significance in
the plugin, and the plugin still runs fine under Firefox.
My .CRX file appears to successfully install the plugin files into C:
\Documents and Settings\username\Local
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
This page seems to list this property as supported in Safari, but not IE or
Firefox:http://aptana.com/reference/html/api/HTML.field.pluginspage.html
I'm not sure what relevance that page is ...
* Who published the page ?
* How old is the information contained in it ?
* What is the
Can you create a test page that works differently in Firefox and
Chrome? If so, that's a strong argument that we should change our
behavior to match Firefox.
Yes, I have been using such pages for the past 2 weeks in an endeavour
to get my NPAPI Plugin to download over the internet under
And it sounds like you've used it in IE as well?
No.
For IE, I use the HTML OBJECT tag and the codebase property, to load
an ActiveX control equivalent of my NPAPI Plugin.
For Firefox (and hopefully Chrome at some point), I use the HTML EMBED
tag and the pluginspage property, to load my NPAPI
OK. Thanks for the information.
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 ?
OK. Thanks for that Matt. At least now I know I was using the wrong
mechanism.
So what is the recommended way to download and install an NPAPI Plugin
over the internet under Chrome ?
There are 4 files that I need to download (the plugin dll plus 3
helper files):
npmyplugin.dll
I have an NPAPI plugin (that I originally wrote for Firefox) which I
want to download to Chrome over the internet using an embedded object
(using either EMBED or OBJECT, I don't mind which).
My plugin works fine under Chrome once I've manually copied the files
to a location that Chrome knows
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