javascriptnpapibrowser-plugin

Detecting NPAPI support using JavaScript


How can you detect if a browser supports NPAPI from JavaScript? Not all of them do, and whilst I could rely on the user-agent I'd much rather do it a more reliable way if one exists.

Unfortunately, I can't simply detect if my plug-in has loaded or not, as it may be that the plugin simply isn't installed yet on a supported browser.

Thanks.


Solution

  • There is no JS API for this, but basically all desktop browsers except IE-/Trident-based ones and ChromeOS support NPAPI.

    You can find out wether your plugin is installed by checking navigator.plugins.