What to do if you meet the phrase Chrome Flags Enable Npapi? Such unknown words often lead us into a dead end. We are trying to deal with them, but in vain. Of course, if you are a programmer, then you already know what will be discussed. But if you accidentally learned that you need to somehow include these four English words, do not worry, everything is not as complicated as it seems.
Browser
Let's start in order. It will be about some tools that worked before in the Chrome browser. This is a fairly well-known web browser from Google, which now occupies a leading position among all its "colleagues", a program based on the free Chromium browser paired with the Blink engine.
This is a young application that appeared in 2008. It has already been updated many times and is now using version 59. At the same time, the browser is not without drawbacks, but is still considered convenient, fast and safe.
Options
Next, let's move on to Chrome Flags. Like any program, the browser has prepared for experts some hidden features. Especially they will become useful for programmers. Here you can find many hidden options that are not in the settings menu. But this does not mean that some of the functions will not be needed by the ordinary user. There are those who can make surfing the Internet more comfortable.
So, to get there, you need the chrome: // flags command. This line must be entered into the browser and press Enter. You will see a page with a large set of commands and options. To study them all makes no sense. In addition, despite the availability of descriptions, it is not so simple to understand their capabilities to the ordinary reader. But there are some that can make your work with the browser simple and fix some shortcomings.
Main teams
Overwrite all functions that can be found in the chrome: // flags menu. it makes no sense. You can consider the basic ones that can really come in handy. For example, here you can change the translation panel to an icon. Usually it appears on foreign sites. You can ignore the ban on autocomplete. It happens that you have this feature enabled, but individual pages directly prohibit its use. To do this, you can try to use this option.
There is an option to enable automatic error correction. So, if you enter text somewhere, the browser will help you "become more competent." The application can predict your desires. One of the options loads the page faster because it knows the final position of your finger on the touch device.
If there is no Internet, you can use the function that takes pages from the cache and allows you to view them.
There are a number of commands in the chrome: // flags menu that are responsible for performance. It is possible to check for compatibility, enable Direct 3D to speed up work, or quickly close tabs and windows.
Architecture
Since it is clear from our set of words that Enable is responsible for enabling the function, and, accordingly, Disable is responsible for disabling, we turn to the incomprehensible word NPAPI. This, as you might guess, is an abbreviation. Translated into Russian, we get the "Netscape plug-in programming interface".
In simple terms, this is some architecture due to which plugins can appear. Most likely, the question will arise, what are plugins. These are software modules that can be connected to a program. At the same time, plugins will complement the application, expand its capabilities. These modules look like a library for users.
NPAPI appeared a long time ago, along with one of the first Netscape browsers, hence the name of the architecture. Later, this architecture, which developed plugins, was adopted by all existing web browsers. But it was a long time ago. Already a couple of years ago, popular browsers began to abandon it, and plugins began to lose their functionality.
Renouncement
Since we are talking about the chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi command, we will continue to examine the history of the relationship of this architecture with the Google Chrome browser. Since this web browser appeared in 2008, it was from this moment that support for plugins with the Netscape Plug-in API began. But in January 2014, the developers decided to abandon them and ceased their support.
In general, things have been going to failure for a long time. Firstly, this is due to the fact that architecture itself is from the nineties, and indeed it would be time to change it to a newer one. After it was blocked by Windows in Metro mode, there were suspicions about the danger of the interface.
In order not to leave plugins unattended, it was decided to develop PPAPI on their own. He, according to programmers, is safer. After all plugins were transferred to it. In order for an alternative to Flash Player to appear, which worked with the Netscape Plug-in API, Pepper Flash Player was launched.
Shutdown
Before you enable NPAPI in Chrome Flags, you need to think about security. It is not in vain that almost all browsers abandoned this architecture. When Google Chrome disabled it, all plugins stopped working by default. But the most popular still functioned for a while. Among them were Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, etc.
Already the 42nd version of the browser came out with the Netscape Plug-in interface disabled. Although some workarounds still existed. Since the 45th version, this has ceased to be possible. Functions that work with NPAPI have been disabled and removed from the web browser system.
Turning on
Many immediately rushed to look for ways to turn it on. Chrome Flags Enable Npapi has finally come in handy for many. This command allowed you to use the interface. This was necessary for those who frequently visited sites with the Netscape Plug-in. And until that time, until Google Chrome finally broke all the way to the interface, it was still possible to get to it.
To do this, you had to open a browser and immediately enter chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi in the address bar. It was easy to turn on the interface in the line of the same name with a highlighted inscription. The “Restart” button appeared below. By the way, next to the inclusion there was information that this method is suitable for those who work with browser versions from 42nd to 45th. This feature will be disabled later.
conclusions
That's how we met with a difficult concept, which was relevant back in 2014. Now this command is unlikely to work, because for Google Chrome the story with NPAPI has ended, as, in general, for many other browsers. Now those who work with plugins of this interface can use special applications of the Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror project and a couple of other web browsers.
The chrome: // flags command remained. You can enable many options with its help. But activating NPAPI plugins will not work. Google offers to work with newer standards, including HTML5 and NaCL.