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petecox on Oct 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar

Because it's too much effort to port to Servo and they'd rather piggyback on Chrome's plugin efforts?

dblohm7 on Oct 1, 2016 [–]

No, it is because NPAPI is a stability and performance nightmare. No sane person in 2016 would want to port it to Servo or anything else.

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