Google announced the PPAPI in 2009 as an effort to provide "a set of modifications to the NPAPI to make plugins more portable and more secure." Google's Chrome and Chromium browsers support the PPAPI, and they therefore provide seamless support for the next-generation PPAPI-based Flash plugin. Adobe supplies only the bare essential security updates for the legacy plugin with the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). PepperedĪdobe completely discontinued the development of standalone Flash plugins for Linux in February 2012 however, they still support a plugin for Google's Native Client (NaCL) technology, which uses the Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI). In this article, I describe some recent changes across the Flash landscape and give some tips on setting up Flash on a Linux system. The latest developments in Flash are causing a considerable amount of confusion. Hardly a web browser operates without Flash, even in the Linux world. So you can stay current with just one Firefox update.Adobe Flash may be becoming less and less important with the rise of HTML5, but the much-maligned plugin is still the most widely installed browser add-on in the computer world.
Plugins, on top of that, are also kept up-to-date automatically and managed through blocklisting for added security. Using an old version of any browser, including Firefox, puts your personal data and even your computer at risk.įirefox has expanded to support features that used to require extra plugins. We recommend that you update Firefox if you can.Įvery update of Firefox includes important fixes and improvements, including improvements that help keep you secure on the Internet. What if I'm on an older version of Firefox? Firefox joins other modern browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge by removing support for these NPAPI plugins. Now, many sites have adopted Web APIs, and almost all your favorite pages can be enjoyed without using old and insecure plugins. Web APIs are designed to replace the function of the NPAPI plugins without undermining your internet security, stability and performance.īefore, while these Web APIs weren’t quite ready, Firefox started to transition by making plugins load manually ( click to activate). Over the past few years, Firefox has worked hard to build replacements for these plugins, these replacements are called Web APIs. While NPAPI plugins, especially Flash, have helped enable these interactive pages, they also make your browsing slower, less secure and more likely to crash. The internet is full of websites that go beyond static pages, such as video, sound and games.
Over the past few years, Firefox has implemented various Web APIs so that websites can do the same things they’ve always done without plugins, so you will most likely not notice any change to your browsing experience. Note: The Widevine CDM and OpenH264 Video Codec plugins are not NPAPI plugins and are still supported.
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