RELATED: 10 Things You Didn't Know Your Web Browser Could Do Yet Why Can Firefox Not Use the Pepper Plugin? The Linux Flash NPAPI plug-in isn’t healthy - it’s on life support, and they’ll eventually have to pull the plug. Adobe hasn’t announced any plans to cease security updates for Flash 11.2 on Linux, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see them do that in a few years.
You won’t get any performance, battery life, or security infrastructure improvements if you continue to use Flash with Firefox. That’s why Firefox’s Plugin Check doesn’t flag the old Flash plug-in as outdated. On Linux, the NPAPI plug-in is stuck at 11.2 while the current version of Flash is 14.ĭoes This Mean Flash for Firefox is Insecure?Īdobe notes they’re continuing to provide security updates for Flash 11.2 on Linux, but they’re only actively developing the Pepper Flash plug-in for Linux. On Windows and Mac OS X, Adobe is continuing to develop the NPAPI version of Flash used by Firefox and other browsers. Adobe signed on, and the Flash Plugin distributed with Chrome - on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X - uses Pepper instead of NPAPI. In 2013, Google announced their intention to remove NPAPI support from Chrome because “NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity.” They’ve replaced NPAPI with Pepper, also known as PPAPI. NPAPI was originally developed for Netscape - NPAPI stands for “Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface.” It became the standard plug-in architecture that all non-Internet-Explorer browsers used.īut NPAPI is very old. Other browsers on all operating systems - Firefox, Safari, and even Chrome until recently - use the NPAPI framework. Internet Explorer on Windows uses ActiveX plugins. Web browsers use different types of plug-ins.
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