IcedTeaPlugin

[Erik P. Olsen]

After a  recent fedora 20 update probably to google-chrome-stable the 
IcedTeaPlugin was no longer a plugin. How do I get it back again? And where does 
google-chrome load its plugins from?

[SternData]

On 05/22/2014 02:28 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> After a  recent fedora 20 update probably to google-chrome-stable the
> IcedTeaPlugin was no longer a plugin. How do I get it back again? And
> where does google-chrome load its plugins from?

It's a "feature" of Chrome 35. They removed the NPAPI interface.

See
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7...

As to the future?  No one has posted a good workaround yet.  IT seems to
have something to do with a "pepper plugin".

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 22/05/14 21:34, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 05/22/2014 02:28 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > After a  recent fedora 20 update probably to google-chrome-stable the
> > IcedTeaPlugin was no longer a plugin. How do I get it back again? And
> > where does google-chrome load its plugins from?
>
> It's a "feature" of Chrome 35. They removed the NPAPI interface.
>
> See
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7...
>
> As to the future?  No one has posted a good workaround yet.  IT seems to
> have something to do with a "pepper plugin".

Yes, I see. Living in Denmark makes google-chrome useless since all access to 
banks and other public sites is depending upon java at least for 2014.

Back to firefox.

[Fred Smith]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:51:32AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 22/05/14 21:34, Steven Stern wrote:
> > On 05/22/2014 02:28 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > > After a  recent fedora 20 update probably to google-chrome-stable the
> > > IcedTeaPlugin was no longer a plugin. How do I get it back again? And
> > > where does google-chrome load its plugins from?
> >
> > It's a "feature" of Chrome 35. They removed the NPAPI interface.
> >
> > See
> > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7...
> >
> > As to the future?  No one has posted a good workaround yet.  IT seems to
> > have something to do with a "pepper plugin".
>
> Yes, I see. Living in Denmark makes google-chrome useless since all
> access to banks and other public sites is depending upon java at
> least for 2014.
>
> Back to firefox.

I wonder how long before some bright hacker creates a "pepper-to-npapi"
shim??

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> I wonder how long before some bright hacker creates a "pepper-to-npapi"
> shim??

Unlikely.  NPAPI provides full OS access while Pepper is much more limited
by design for security reasons

Rahul