If I remember correctly, the issue was they were moving to sandboxing and NPAPI plugins had a lot of issues with security at the time. There was a new flash vulnerability almost every week, and usually it meant getting a lot of control over the browser.
i kind of miss it, because there was an tribute game called aot tribute game it was very fun, i used to play it alot back in 2015, and i remember it only ran on firefox after chrome booted out NPAPI
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That article, which is from 2015 btw, explain it well. NPAPI caused crashes, and a lot of security issues, that’s why they were removed.
If I remember correctly, the issue was they were moving to sandboxing and NPAPI plugins had a lot of issues with security at the time. There was a new flash vulnerability almost every week, and usually it meant getting a lot of control over the browser.
i kind of miss it, because there was an tribute game called aot tribute game it was very fun, i used to play it alot back in 2015, and i remember it only ran on firefox after chrome booted out NPAPI