NPAPI on Mac

[Adam Billyard]

Hi,

My NPAPI-based plugin fails to load on Macintosh Chrome. 

Chrome loads the Extension from the Webstore ("LightUp for Macintosh") and does not complain but it fails to show in navigator.plugins[] 

It used to work just fine and I haven't changed anything, so how do I get Chrome to display some debugging info as to why it shows the Extension but is obviously not loading it.

If I install it for Safari (/Library/Internet-Plugins), Chrome picks it up and fine and it works.  So the plugin is fine, its just some meta-data requirement that appears to have changed.

Any ideas?

  Adam

 

[Adam Billyard]

To answer my own question for the record:

commandline arg "--debug-plugin-loading"  helped track down that the Bundle wasn't being created

The reason is that the limited docs on the manifest.json implied the plugins[] field should be a single file, not the entire .plugins folder

  Adam

[James Mortensen]

Just FYI Adam, NPAPI will soon be deprecated in Chrome extensions.  I heard they plan to stop supporting it in favor of Pepper/PPAPI. Just so you know.  I chose not to use NPAPI due to this.

James

[Adam Billyard]

Thanks for the heads-up.

No doubt they'll not be providing any adaptor classes to this new API.  And remove OpenGL support and say you should use HTML5 etc etc.

Frankly, can't be bothered supporting it.

  Adam