nspluginwrapper

nspluginwrapper is an Open Source compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI) plugins. That is, it enables you to use plugins on platforms they were not built for. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash plugin on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD and FreeBSD platforms.

nspluginwrapper is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Last update: 2007/08/26 -- Version 0.9.91.5.

Bear in mind this is BETA software. The following plugins work reasonnably well:

• Acrobat Reader (5.0.9, 7.0.1)
• DejaVu Libre (3.5.14)
• Flash Player (7.0, 9.0, 9.0 update 3 beta 2)
• Linux JPEG 2000 (0.0.2)
• Mplayerplug-in (2.80, 3.25)
• Real Player (10.0.5)
• ICA Citrix Client
• Squeak VM (3.7)
• Tcl/Tk (3.1.0)

• [2007/08/26] nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5
  • Fix a memory leak in NPP_Destroy()
  • Fix DiamondX XEmbed example plugin
  • Fix focus problems (Debian bug #435912)
  • Add support for 64-bit plugins (Martin Stransky)
  • Add support for newer NPAPI 0.17 functions and variables
  • Add support for broken 64-bit Konqueror versions (run-time detect)

• [2007/04/03] nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.4
  • Don’t try to wrap native plugins
  • Fix build on NetBSD (David Brownlee)
  • Fix build on DragonFlyBSD (Steve O’Hara-Smith)
  • Fix build on Linux systems with SSP enabled by default (Kristian Hermansen)

• [...]

• Note that you need both the Plugin and the Viewer for correct operation. Please also read the release notes.

• nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5 (26.Aug.2007)

  • Plugin, Viewer (x86_64, glibc 2.3, gcc 3.4)

  • Sources: [ tar.bz2 ] [ rpm ]

• Older releases

More detailed documentation is available in the Help Center.

• On package installation, 32-bit plugins are automatically recognized and installed system-wide, provided they are available in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.

• You can then manually install/remove/update plugins with the nspluginwrapper program.

• Installing an additional plugin (e.g. the JPEG2000 plugin) into the user’s Mozilla plugins directory:

  nspluginwrapper -i ~/downloads/npjp2-0.0.2/src/npjp2.so

• Updating (with detailed operations) all installed plugins from system and user’s directories:

  nspluginwrapper -v -a -u

• Removing a plugin:

  nspluginwrapper -r ~/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.npjp2.so