pipelight silverlight on chromium, I have upgaded to 14:04 and pipelight no longer works on chromium

[Roz Lockwood]

I have upgaded to 14:04, pipelight silverlight no longer works on chromium.

I have tried re-installing it when the browser is closed. This does not work.

When I go into about:plugins, pipelight is not there.

It works fine in firefox, which is weird, cause I was having problems with pipelight in firefox under 13.10, but that problem is now fixed, however I would like to have pipelight in chromium.

Any suggestions please?

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

the reason why it is not working is that Google is dropping support for NPAPI. There was a decision to backport the changes which break NPAPI from Chromium 35 (which is a beta version) to version 34 on Ubuntu Trusty to test the reactions (see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-April/004462.html ). So basically Pipelight works with Chromium 34 on every Ubuntu version other than Trusty and it also works in Google Chrome 34. For more information take a look at the other bug report. Though as soon as version 35 is released it is going to stop working anyway.

Michael