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Anonymous
March 17, 2015
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Do I need BOTH Adobe Flash Player 16 NPAPI and Adobe Flash Player 17 ActiveX?

  • March 17, 2015
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I noticed that I have two versions of Flash installed (16 and 17) although one says NPAPI and the other says ActiveX. Do I need both or can I safely delete Adobe Flash Player 16 NPAPI?

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Correct answer jeromiec83223024

Each major browser has a different plug-in architecture, which means that there's a unique version of Flash Player for it:

ActiveX is for Internet Explorer.  NPAPI is for Firefox and other NPAPI-based browsers.  PPAPI is for Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.

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Inspiring
March 17, 2015

Each major browser has a different plug-in architecture, which means that there's a unique version of Flash Player for it:

ActiveX is for Internet Explorer.  NPAPI is for Firefox and other NPAPI-based browsers.  PPAPI is for Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.

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Anonymous
March 18, 2015

Thank you for taking the time to reply and clear that up for me, most appreciated!

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