I'm curious as to the procedure for writing browser plugins for browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Opera. I'm thinking specifically of Windows here and would prefer working with C++. Are there any ...

I have developed one NP API plugin and was playing with it. I observed below two things When I install the plugin first time I need to restart my mac os to load the plugin. Whenever I update the ...

Attempting to build a C# NPAPI plugin I have found a tutorial which describes that your dll needs to implement a number of methods such as NP_GetEntryPoints , NP_Initialize and NPP_New along with a...

I compiled sample NPAPI Plugin which I got from this link http://code.google.com/p/npapi-sdk/ after compiling it using NDK, I got the .so file libs/armeabi/libBasicPlugin.so after searching on Go...

Note: Please don't answer with just use Adobe AIR". I am aware of it, and it's not applicable in this situation. I've been reviewing the Gecko Plugin API reference. I'm assuming I'd have to imple...

What is the best practice to debug a npapi plugin. I am currently developing a plugin with the help of nixysa. I currently debugging printing intermediate values to log file. Is there any better wa...

Is there any way to make an NPAPI plugin work in Internet explorer or do I need to go the activex way ? thanks

I know that if I write a C++ plugin, then I need to have Linux, Mac, Windows versions at least but what's the full list of combinations? NPAPI is supported by many browsers so does that mean the ex...

I am building an NPAPI plugin for Linux that uses the XEmbed protocol for the window that is controlled by the plugin. I am using Gtk+ for attaching to the window, wrapping the XEmbed window with a...

Situation: I've already written an ActiveX control for my IE users which works perfectly. I build the .ocx, CAB it up, sign it, and put it on the site with an EMBED tag. Users load the page, the ye...

I need to write some Google Chrome extension. The problem is that Chrome JavaScript APIs don't give me enough power - I need to use native code. I thought about writing a NPAPI plug-in that will pr...

How to get the SSL certificate context of the website using NPAPI ? Can I use libnss (Network Security Services) or should I stick to WinINet's InternetQueryOption() to get the context. Thanks, Sa...

I am trying to make a chrome plugin but Chrome API doesn't give me enough power. I want to use NPAPI but I have no idea how to use it but I do have experience in Visual C++. Can someone show me a ...

On windows, when the "Shell.Explorer" ActiveX control is embedded in an application it is possible to register an "external" handler - on object that implements IDispatch, such that scripts on the ...

I wrote a small NPAPI plugin using an old Mozilla NPRuntime example as a base. My problem is that it works fine on Firefox and Safari (on Windows), but it fails to work with Google Chrome. I can s...

I need to write a browser plugin to communicate with another process, and it seems I have to use NPAPI plugins. Is there any example or open source NPAPI plugin I can refer to? Many thanks for you...

I'm writing a web browser plugin (NPAPI.) My plugin starts a worker thread, and as the worker progresses, I'd like to pass events back to Javascript. But because of the NPAPI threading model, it's...