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Does Firefox support npapi plugins/ppapi plugins?

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Dannyfang
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1.I know Firefox support NPAPI plugins. But it sound Firefox will no longer support NPAPI plugins,is that ture? 2.Does Firefox support PPAPI plugins now?

1.I know Firefox support NPAPI plugins. But it sound Firefox will no longer support NPAPI plugins,is that ture? 2.Does Firefox support PPAPI plugins now?

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the-edmeister
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  1. At some time in the future NPAPI will be deprecated, but before that happens an alternative API will be created involving HTML5.
  2. No it doesn't.
cor-el
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It is not likely that Firefox will support the PPAPI format that is used by Google Chrome.