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by jfuhrman 3986 days ago
Flash bundles things like Chrome, Mcafee etc.

That's the real reason they don't want a auto-update. Google pays them a lot for bundling Chrome(I think it's around $1 per install). They keep breaking the auto-update on purpose so that they can make a ton of money by bundling other software. Same with Java updates.
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digi_owl 3986 days ago
And that's downright weird, given that Chrome use a different plugin API and thus get Flash bundled.

Even Windows has Flash via the updater.

Just about the only browser that use the old API is Firefox.

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snuxoll 3986 days ago
Shock, the only browser that still uses NPAPI is the descendant of the one that invented it!

Really, at this point I think Mozilla is more interested in just getting rid of plugins than trying to implement an alternative to NPAPI - why put all the effort in to support something like PPAPI when plugins should be dead within the decade anyway?

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pcwalton 3986 days ago
It's not a secret. The replacement for NPAPI is the Web APIs. The port of Flash to the new NPAPI--the Web APIs--is called Shumway.
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proactivesvcs 3986 days ago
ah yes good point! I've used a different install method for so long I forgot that. So again, tantamount to crime.
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