What if you come across the phrase Chrome Flags Enable Npapi? Such unknown words often lead us to a dead end. We are trying to deal with them, but in vain. Of course, if you are a programmer, then you already know what will be discussed. But if you happen to find out that you need to somehow include these four English words do not worry, everything is not as difficult as it seems.
Browser
Let's start in order. We will talk about some of the tools that used to work in Chrome browser... It is a fairly well-known web browser from Google, which now occupies a leading position among all his "colleagues", the program is based on free Chromium browser paired with the Blink engine.
This is a young app that came out in 2008. It has already been updated many times and is now using version 59. At the same time, the browser is not without drawbacks, but it is still considered convenient, fast and safe.
Options
Next, let's move on to Chrome Flags. Like any program, the browser has prepared some hidden opportunities... They will be especially useful for programmers. Here you can find many hidden options which are not in the settings menu. But this does not mean that some of the functions will not be needed. ordinary user... There are those that can make surfing the Internet more comfortable.
So, to get there, you need the chrome: // flags command. This line must be entered into the browser and press Enter. You will see a page with a large set of commands and options. There is no point in studying them all. In addition, despite the presence of descriptions, it is not so easy to understand their capabilities for an ordinary reader. But there are those that can make your work with the browser simple and fix some bugs.
Basic commands
Rewrite all features found in the chrome: // flags menu. it makes no sense. You can consider the main ones that can really come in handy. For example, here you can change the translation bar to an icon. It usually appears on foreign websites. You can ignore the autocomplete prohibition. It happens that this function is enabled for you, but directly separate pages prohibit its use. To do this, you can try using this option.
There is an option to include automatic fix mistakes. So, if you enter text somewhere, the browser will help you "become more literate." The app can predict your desires. One of the options loads the page faster because it knows the final position of your finger on the touch device.
If there is no Internet, you can use the function that fetches pages from the cache and allows them to be viewed.
There are a number of commands in the chrome: // flags menu that are responsible for performance. You can check for compatibility, enable Direct 3D to speed up your work, or quickly close tabs and windows.
Architecture
Since it is clear from our set of words that Enable is responsible for enabling the function, and, accordingly, Disable is for disabling, then let's move on to the incomprehensible word NPAPI. This, as you might guess, is an abbreviation. Translated into Russian we will get " software interface Netscape Plugins ".
In simple terms, this is some kind of architecture, thanks to which plugins can appear. Most likely, the question will arise, what is software modules that can be connected to the program. At the same time, plugins will complement the application and expand its capabilities. These modules look like a library for users.
NPAPI appeared a long time ago, along with one of the first Netscape browsers, hence the name of the architecture. Later, this architecture, which developed plugins, was adopted by all existing web browsers. But that was a long time ago. Already a couple of years ago popular browsers began to abandon it, and plugins began to lose their functionality.
Refusal
Insofar as it comes about the chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi command, we will further consider the history of the relationship of this architecture with the browser Google chrome... Since this web browser was introduced in 2008, it is from this point that support for plugins with the Netscape Plug-in API began. But already in January 2014, the developers decided to abandon them and stopped supporting them.
In general, things have been going towards refusal for a long time. Firstly, this is due to the fact that the architecture itself is from the nineties, and really it would be time to change it to a newer one. After it was locked by Windows in Metro mode, there were suspicions about the dangers of the interface.
In order not to leave plugins unattended, it was decided to develop PPAPI on our own. He, according to programmers, is safer. After that, all plugins were transferred to it. And so that there is an alternative Flash Player which worked with the Netscape Plug-in API, the Pepper Flash Player was launched.
Disconnection
Before you enable NPAPI in Chrome Flags, you need to think about security. It's not for nothing that almost all browsers have abandoned this architecture. When I disabled it, all plugins stopped working by default. But the most popular ones still functioned for a while. Among them were Silverlight, Unity, Google earth and etc.
Already the 42nd version of the browser came out with the Netscape Plug-in interface disabled. Although some workarounds did exist. With the 45th version, this has ceased to be possible. NPAPI features have been disabled and removed from the web browser.
Turning on
Many immediately rushed to look for ways to turn it on. Chrome Flags Enable Npapi has finally come in handy for many. This command made it possible to use the interface. This was necessary for those who often visited sites with the Netscape Plug-in. And until the moment when Google Chrome finally cut off all the paths to the interface, it was still possible to get to it.
To do this, you had to open a browser and enter chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi in the address bar. It was easy to enable the interface in the line of the same name with a highlighted inscription. Below the button "Restart" appeared. By the way, next to the inclusion there was information that this method will fit for those who work with browser versions from 42 to 45. This feature will be disabled later.
conclusions
This is how we got acquainted with a difficult concept that was relevant back in 2014. Now this command is unlikely to work, since for Google Chrome history with NPAPI ended, as, in general, and for many other browsers. Now those who work with plugins of this interface can use special applications the Mozilla project, Safari, Konqueror and a couple of other web browsers.
The chrome: // flags command also remains. You can enable many options with its help. But you won't be able to activate NPAPI plugins. Google offers to work with newer standards, including HTML5 and NaCL.
The Google Chrome browser has an impressive array of additional opportunities, some of which we have with you before. In this article, we will introduce you to some of the features that the developers have placed in the Experimental Browser Settings section. Inexperienced Users they are usually bypassed.
Where to find experimental Chrome settings
Get to this section from the menu is not possible. To access experimental google settings Chrome, in address bar introduce chrome: // flags and press "Enter".
A section opens in front of us, which contains browser functions that are not available to a wide range of users. Let's take a look at some of them.
Safe experimental features to improve surfing
Smooth scrolling
Chrome users have been expecting this feature, probably since the release of the first version of the browser. Turn it on in the menu or activate it with the following command in the address bar:
chrome: // flags / # smooth-scrolling
Mute the sound
If you play media content on any browser tab, the tab is indicated by the corresponding icon.
In order to turn off the sound by clicking on this icon, you must first activate the corresponding option in the experimental settings window:
chrome: // flags / # enable-tab-audio-muting
Quickly close windows and tabs
This option can speed up Chrome work... With its activation, it changes somewhat graphical interface browser and tabs begin to close regardless of the response of the applications running in them, and the browser is visually "accelerated". To enable, dial chrome: // flags / # enable-fast-unload
QUIC support
In addition to the well-known Internet protocol TCP, Google has developed an alternative - the Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol. And although QUIC is not as widespread today as TCP, enabling it can give a slight increase in surfing speed. We include at this address:
chrome: // flags / # enable-quic
Password generator
By including this setting by the address chrome: // flags / # enable-password-generation we instruct the browser to independently generate passwords in the forms on the registration pages.
Few users know about such an interesting thing as hidden Chrome settings. But in fact, many users will find it very useful to learn about which settings are hidden from the eyes of strangers.
Many of them can significantly improve browser performance, speed up page loading, disable some sounds, enable smooth scrolling, and much more.
We will analyze which functions are hidden, where to find them, and which ones are worth paying the most attention to.
1. General information
So, hidden settings are a set experimental functions that change from time to time. Some of them become permanent, while others remain experimental for life.
In fact, we are dealing with a test site that the developers have made available to the general public.
Previously, only specially trained people were involved in testing. But Google specialists decided to involve you and me in this work.
Today everyone can open a page with hidden settings, enable or disable some of them and try using it.
To access this page, you must enter "chrome: // flags" in the address bar and press "Enter" on the keyboard.
After opening the chrome // flags page, you can see a list of functions. Near each of them there is an inscription "Enable" or "Disable" if the setting is already enabled. But by default, everyone is in a disabled state.
Prompt: On this page there is always a button "Restore default settings". She is in the right upper corner... If you start using hidden functions and do something wrong, it is best to use this button so as not to cause irreparable harm to the browser, and maybe all Google programs.
Now let's talk about the most interesting parameters in this list.
2. Smooth scrolling
It is interesting that users have been waiting, and some have simply demanded this feature from the developers for a long time.
Smooth page scrolling allows the user to see new elements without losing sight of the old ones. That is, when he scrolls a particular site, the scrolling does not occur abruptly, but gradually. Among other things, it is very pleasing to the eyes.
To enable this hidden function, you need to find the "Smooth Scrolling" parameter and select the "Enable" option below.
Prompt: To find a setting by its name, you must press simultaneously on the keyboard "Ctrl" and "F" and enter its name in the search bar.
In Figure 2, the search bar is displayed in the upper right, it is highlighted with a green frame.
3. Mute the sound
Opera has a very interesting function... If you, for example, watch a video on YouTube, but work with the site in another tab, then a loudspeaker or equalizer is displayed on the YouTube contribution.
The first appears if there is no sound, and the second - if there is. The user can click on these icons and turn off the sound. In addition, thanks to this function, you can simply see on which tab the sound is taking place.
So, Google developers Chrome also decided to make the same function, albeit so far only in experimental regime... It is called "Tab audio muting UI control". Under it there is an inscription "Enable", which allows you to run this parameter.
You can also find it by searching in your browser.
4. Acceleration of closing
Also, among other things, this list has a function to accelerate the surfing of pages. More specifically, there is a function called "Fast tab / window close" that starts accelerating the closing of tabs and the whole window.
Interestingly, the changes in this case concern only graphics, in programmatically everything remains the same. Therefore, for the browser to work, enabling this parameter will not affect in any way.
It turns on in the same way as the others - we find "Fast tab / window close" and press the inscription "Turn on".
5. Speed up your internet connection
There is an experimental protocol called Quick UDP Internet Connections, or simply QUIC. It makes the browser connect to the internet much faster.
On this moment classic TCP is used, but QUIC is faster. This protocol is used on server Google services and gives a significant boost.
The developers decided to give users the opportunity to work with QUIC at their own risk. The danger is that QUIC is still less secure than TCP, albeit not much.
This parameter is called "Experimental QUIC protocol". It turns on, like the function smooth scrolling by selecting the "Enable" option from the drop-down menu.
6. Automatic generation of passwords
Another rather interesting function is the generation of a password in cases where the user is on the registration page anywhere. Moreover, these passwords are reliable at least, by the standards of the protocol itself.
True, many are afraid to enable this function for the simple reason that they consider it to be a way to steal passwords and gain access to personal data. In fact, this is not the case. The parameter is very convenient and simple.
On the settings page, it is called "Password generation" and is enabled in the same way as the "Experimental QUIC protocol".
There are a lot of similar functions. In the description under each it is written what this or that parameter does. Use hidden settings from Google, it's really convenient!
What if you meet Chrome Flags Enable Npapi? Such obscure words often lead us to a dead end. We are trying to deal with them, but in vain. Of course, if you are a programmer, then you already know what the talk is about. But if you happen to find out that you need to somehow include these four English words, do not worry, everything is not as difficult as it seems.
Browser
Let's start in order. We will talk about some of the tools that worked earlier in the Chrome browser. This is a fairly well-known web browser from Google, which now occupies a leading position among all its "colleagues", a program based on the free Chromium browser paired with the Blink engine.
This is a young application that appeared in 2008. It has already been updated many times and is now using version 59. At the same time, the browser is not without its drawbacks, but it is still considered convenient, fast and safe.
Options
Continue on to Chrome Flags. Like any program, the browser has prepared some hidden opportunities for specialists. They will be especially useful for programmers. Here you can find many hidden options that are not in the settings menu. But this does not mean that some of the functions will not be needed by an ordinary user. There are those who can make surfing the Internet more comfortable.
So, to get there, you need the chrome: // flags command. This line must be entered into the browser and press Enter. Before you will appear a page with a large set of commands and options. There is no point in studying them all. In addition, despite the presence of descriptions, it is not so easy to understand their capabilities for an ordinary reader. But there are some that can make your work with the browser simple and fix some bugs.
Basic commands
Overwrite all the functions that can be found in the chrome: // flags menu. no sense. You can consider the main ones that can really come in handy. For example, here you can change the translation bar to an icon. It usually appears on foreign websites. You can ignore the autocomplete ban. It happens that this function is enabled for you, but immediately separate pages prohibit its use. To do this, you can try using this option. 
There is an option to enable automatic error correction. So, if you enter text somewhere, the browser will help you "become literate". The app can tell you what you want. One of the options loads the page faster, because it knows the end position of your finger on the sensor device.
If there is no internet, you can use a function that retrieves pages from the cache and allows you to view them.
There are a number of commands in the chrome: // flags menu that are responsible for performance. It is possible to check for compatibility, enable Direct 3D to speed up work, or quickly close tabs and windows.
Architecture
Since it is clear from our set of words that Enable is responsible for turning on the function, and, accordingly, Disable for turning it off, let's move on to the incomprehensible word NPAPI. This, as you might guess, is an abbreviation. Translated into Russian we will get "Netscape plug-in software interface".
In simple terms, this is some kind of architecture, thanks to which plugins can appear. Sooner of all, the question will arise, what are these plugins. These are software modules that can be connected to a program. At the same time, plugins will complement the application, expand its capabilities. These modules look like a library for the user.
NPAPI has been around for a very long time, along with one of the first Netscape browsers, hence the name of the architecture. Later, this architecture, which developed the plugins, was adopted by all existing web browsers. But that was a long time ago. Already a couple of years ago, popular browsers began to abandon it, and plugins began to lose their functionality. 
Refusal
Since we are talking about the chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi command, we will further consider the history of the relationship of this architecture with the Google Chrome browser. Since this web browser appeared in 2008, it was from that moment that support for plugins with the Netscape Plug-in API began. But already in January 2014, the developers decided to abandon them and stopped their support.
In general, the case went to failure for a long time. Firstly, this is due to the fact that the architecture itself is from the nineties, and indeed it would be time to replace it with a new one. After it was locked by Windows in Metro-mode, there were suspicions and about the danger of the interface.
In order not to leave plugins unattended, it was decided to develop PPAPI on its own. He, according to programmers, is safer. After that all plugins were transferred to it. And to provide an alternative to the Flash Player that worked with the Netscape Plug-in API, the Pepper Flash Player was launched.
Disconnection
Before enabling NPAPI in Chrome Flags, you need to think about security. It’s not in vain that practically all browsers have abandoned this architecture. When Google Chrome disabled it, all plugins by default stopped working. But the most popular ones still functioned for a while. Among them were Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, etc.
Already the 42nd version of the browser came out with the Netscape Plug-in interface disabled. Although some bypass paths still existed. From the 45th version it ceased to be possible. NPAPI features have been disabled and removed from the web browser.
Inclusion
Many here rushed to look for ways to turn it on. Chrome Flags Enable Npapi finally came in handy for many. This command allowed us to use the interface. This was necessary for those who frequently visited sites with the Netscape Plug-in. And until that moment, until Google Chrome finally cut off all the way to the interface, it was still possible to get to it.
To do this, you had to open a browser and enter chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi in the address line. It was easy to turn on the interface in the line of the same name with a highlighted inscription. The button "Restart" appeared below. By the way, next to the inclusion there was information that this method is suitable for those who work with browser versions from 42 to 45. This function will be disabled later.
conclusions
This is how we got acquainted with a difficult concept that was still relevant in 2014. Now this command is unlikely to work, since for Google Chrome the story with NPAPI is over, as, in general, for many other browsers. Now those who work with plugins of this interface can use special applications of the project Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror and a couple of other web page browsers.
The chrome: // flags command also remains. You can enable many options with its help. But you won't be able to activate NPAPI plugins. The company "Google" proposes to work with more new standards, among which - HTML5 and NaCL.
