NPAPI plugin in Internet explorer?

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G-Man picture G-Man · Jan 19, 2011 · Viewed 32.7k times · Source

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

thanks

Answer

AlexLocust picture AlexLocust · Jan 19, 2011

No. The IE team dropped support for Netscape-style plug-ins in IE 5.5 SP2, IE 6.0, and later in MS03-015 for IE 5.01.

You can use special ActiveX control for IE, which will load NPAPI-plugin, or you can use FireBreath.

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