Morgan
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Although I wonder... why not leave NPAPI as a prompt-only feature?
Well I guess it would be like linkify supporting redundant features that for all users will decrease performance, increase bloat and for some weaken security. Only to find that less than 5% of people use it and 100% of people lose performance. I doubt anyone could convince me that's worth doing.
In late 2013, 5% of googles users used NPAPI plugins in a given month. Since then google has refined and provided alternatives, and worked with devs to help migrate to what's believed to be better technology (netflix and adobe are two that come to mind).
According to google "This change will improve Chrome’s security, speed, and stability as well as reduce complexity in the code base."
In all honesty, aside from security, I don't know what difference we'll see in those areas. I don't expect to see an instantly noticeable difference though.
There is an irony to all this, I've seen a number of comments on various threads on RSOF and on other websites. The very same people who bashed Java, are the main ones expressing concerns about NPAPI being dropped.
Java and all other NPAPI plugins should work like an executable file that you launch from your computer. You see people will click 'yes run this time' in the browser more often than they will download, unpack/install the same (perhaps potentially malicious) code.
With NPAPI , nowhere does it say hey you're logged is a admin, that means I am too, and you know why it doesn't tell you that? They know any sane person would think twice about allowing it.
These are all mostly just my opinions and nothing more. I've been wrong about things before and no doubt I'll be wrong about things again.
But I'm okay with being wrong, because my opinions are about moving forward. I like many aspects of technology, both old and new as long it's not stagnating
Although I wonder... why not leave NPAPI as a prompt-only feature?
Well I guess it would be like linkify supporting redundant features that for all users will decrease performance, increase bloat and for some weaken security. Only to find that less than 5% of people use it and 100% of people lose performance. I doubt anyone could convince me that's worth doing.
In late 2013, 5% of googles users used NPAPI plugins in a given month. Since then google has refined and provided alternatives, and worked with devs to help migrate to what's believed to be better technology (netflix and adobe are two that come to mind).
According to google "This change will improve Chrome’s security, speed, and stability as well as reduce complexity in the code base."
In all honesty, aside from security, I don't know what difference we'll see in those areas. I don't expect to see an instantly noticeable difference though.
There is an irony to all this, I've seen a number of comments on various threads on RSOF and on other websites. The very same people who bashed Java, are the main ones expressing concerns about NPAPI being dropped.
Java and all other NPAPI plugins should work like an executable file that you launch from your computer. You see people will click 'yes run this time' in the browser more often than they will download, unpack/install the same (perhaps potentially malicious) code.
With NPAPI , nowhere does it say hey you're logged is a admin, that means I am too, and you know why it doesn't tell you that? They know any sane person would think twice about allowing it.
These are all mostly just my opinions and nothing more. I've been wrong about things before and no doubt I'll be wrong about things again.
But I'm okay with being wrong, because my opinions are about moving forward. I like many aspects of technology, both old and new as long it's not stagnating
16-Apr-2015 03:01:25 - Last edited on 16-Apr-2015 04:33:48 by Indecent Act
