chromium 34 not see NPAPI pipelight plugin

[Александр]

Chromium is not see pipelight ( silverlight in windows) and adobe flash plugin after update from 33 to 34 version.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 15 13:29:14 2014
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib32
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-13 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140413)
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chad Miller (cmiller)]

Pipelight uses NPAPI, which is being removed in upstream Chrome and Chromium. See this question, which was far too optimistic about the timeline. https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/241737

I think the status of this is WontFix for Chromium.

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

I wrote two small patches to get Pipelight working again with Chromium. The first patch enables loading of NPAPI plugins when using Aura and second one adds some minimal code to make Chromium think that drawing still works. The second patch does not include the necessary Xembed code which would be necessary to actually show the window inside the browser, but will pass an invalid window handle (0) to the plugin. Pipelight versions >= 0.2.6 will automatically detect the invalid handle and disable embedding so that the plugin will be shown in an extra window. It is not perfect, but should be usable for most plugins like Silverlight.

The patches were written against Chromium 35, but I assume that they should also apply for Chromium 34. If there is interest in using the patches and they do not apply, I can try to fix this problem.

Michael

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "0001-Enable-loading-of-NPAPI-plugins-again.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

It renders essential functionality of the package (or a dependent one) broken.

[Eric Nemchik (eric-nemchik)]

chrome 35 also breaks support for pipelight (and in general npapi)
what are the chances of making a ppapi plugin to serve the same purpose?

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi Eric,

you can find some information about this in our slides from our Talk at the LinuxTag 2014. Take a look at Slide 29 and the following ones: http://www.linuxtag.org/2014/fileadmin/docs/slides/Michael_Mueller___Sebastian_Lackner___Erich_Hoover_-_Pipelight__Windows_Plugins_in_Linux_Browsers.e1342.pdf

There was also some live demo of a PPAPI version during our talk, but as mentioned in the slides, a patched browser is a better solution.

Michael

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

NPAPI is deprecated (see https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation)

As such I'm changing status to invalid. If you believe I'm in error, please leave a comment explaining why and the status can be returned to "Confirmed" though the feature was intentionally starting to be blocked upstream starting in chromium 32.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25, 2019.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Pipelight because there has been no activity for 60 days.]