Browser Development • Re: Linux Pale Moon with Qt toolkit

Someone will need to test QT with NPAPI plugins obviously. I don't think it will work. That being said NPAPI plugins don't work most of the time on Linux for me anyways without a bunch of hacky workarounds. I had lightspark working a few weeks ago but it started crashing for me so I have no working NPAPI plugin on this particular machine to test.

Off-topic: The only way it might work is if plugin-container is built against GTK2. Doesn't matter so much what the browser itself is built against as long as plugin-container is built against the same thing as the plugin.

But yeah, overall it seems like NPAPI support in Linux is not reliable. I did actually get Java working perfectly without GTK2 at all. I wasn't really able to test Lightspark's ability to run on my GTK2-free NPAPI setup, though, because I couldn't get it to run even on normal unmodified Pale Moon with GTK2 available.

So the best plugin to test with NPAPI is the final version of Java that included the plugin. I think Netscape used to bundle Java ages ago, so that's probably among the original use cases for NPAPI, and why it's so resilient.