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Hi Please see this forum thread from 2014 regarding loading XBAPs from EO.WebBrowser: https://www.essentialobjects.com/Forum/postsm35123_XBAP-in-EOWebBrowser.aspx We have recently upgraded to EO.2017 (17.1.55.0) and XBAPs are now no longer loaded. Instead, users are prompted to download and save the XBAP. The version we had prior to EO.2017 was from 2014 (3.0.86.1) but the suggestion in the article regarding using the ‘AdditionalPlugsInsDirs’ approach worked and we have had no issues. Do you know if anything has changed regarding XBAP support? Many thanks Adrian
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Hi,
XBAP will not work in the current version of EO.WebBrowser because Chrome has stopped supporting NPAPI based plugins since V45. The current version of EO.WebBrowser is based on Chromium V54, so NPAPI support has been long gone.
Chrome's plugin strategy has shifted significantly over the years. Early version of Chromes supported all "legacy" plugins (NPAPI based). But recently versions of Chrome literally only supports a few special plugins (PDF, Widewine, etc) because focus has been shifted to HTML5. As a general rule, it is no longer a workable solution to rely on plugins in a web environment. Even MS's own Edge browser no longer supports XBAP.
Thanks
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