Google Chrome announces it will be blocking NPAPI plugins

[sramsay]

Saying Goodbye to Our Old Friend NPAPI:
http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying ... npapi.html

We feel the web is ready for this transition. NPAPI isn’t supported on mobile devices, and Mozilla plans to block NPAPI plug-ins in December 2013. Based on anonymous Chrome usage data, we estimate that only six NPAPI plug-ins were used by more than 5% of users in the last month. Still, we appreciate that it will take time to transition away from NPAPI, so we will be rolling out this change in stages.

Starting in January 2014, Chrome will block webpage-instantiated NPAPI plug-ins by default on the Stable channel

I quickly searched through the VLC wiki regarding the web-plugin, and it does appear to be NPAPI based (and will thus be blocked).

My question is then, will the VLC plugin continue to work after Chrome blocks webpage-instantiated NPAPI plug-ins. If so, is there any plan to deal with this, or will users have to just white-list the VLC plugin?

Thanks,
Simon

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

No, it won't work after that.