[Randomno]

> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)

Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.

Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.

https://github.com/google/pepper.js/

[Yoric]

Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?

[Randomno]

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

[jcranmer]

The most common plugins were Flash, Silverlight, Adobe Reader, and the Java applet plugin, and I think all of those were in mildly common use when plugins were on their last legs.

[pjmlp]

Now you can have all of them running on top of WebAssembly, companies even pay for support.