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About FireBreath


FireBreath aims to be a cross-platform plugin architecture, targeting:

  • NPAPI browsers on windows, mac, and linux:
    • Gecko/Firefox
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple Safari
    • Opera (usually)
  • ActiveX Control hosts:
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and likely later

FireBreath is licensed under a dual license structure; this means you can choose which of two licenses to use it under. FireBreath can be used under the New BSD license or the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.

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6 Comments

  1. Juzer Ali

    How good is the support for Opera? Do simple plugins run on Opera?

    1. Richard Bateman

      You'll have to try it; I haven't heard any complaints in quite awhile, but that may just be that nobody cares? I haven't been ask about opera in nearly a year.

    2. Endeer

      I've tried my simple plugin (offers a few functions to send/retreive data from USB devices and has one parameter to specify JS function to be called when the plugin is ready) and it works in Opera/Win.

      1. Pavol Rusnak

        Hi Endeer! Would you be willing to share your simple USB plugin? I'm quite interested in the code. My email is [email protected]

  2. pra ai

    Trying to run prep step on Debian Wheezy:

    $ ./firebreath/prepmake.sh npapi-chrome-file-api fbbuild
Using projects in: /var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api /var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api
Generating build files in: /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild
NOTE: The build files in /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild should *NEVER* be modified directly. Make changes in cmake and re-run this script.
./firebreath/prepmake.sh: line 9: pushd: /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild
/var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild: No such file or directory
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.26") 
-- checking for module 'gtk+-2.0'
--   found gtk+-2.0, version 2.24.10
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:53 (message):
  The specified project directory /var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api
  /var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api is not found
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
./firebreath/prepmake.sh: line 11: popd: directory stack empty
$  ls -d /var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild
/var/tmp/src/npapi/fbbuild
$ ls -d /var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api
/var/tmp/src/npapi/npapi-chrome-file-api

    Both those directories, which prepmake.sh complaining about, exist and are fully accessible.

    1. pra ai

      I've managed to solve this issue. It's all about directories path:

      ./firebreath/prepmake.sh ./npapi-chrome-file-api ./fbbuild