Pipelight is a

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that allows

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plugins designed for

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to run on

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. It is based on a modified version of

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. It currently supports

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, and Widevine. There is experimental support for additional plugins such as

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. Pipelight requires that the browser support NPAPI plugins, which some browsers (notably newer versions of

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and

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) don't support. Firefox dropped NPAPI support in version 52.

References

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