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This chromium blog states Chrome is dropping NPAPI for good now.

In my current project I need to access a Belgian E-ID card to get data (not authentication).
All documentation and examples I found are using Java plugins. This will become imposible in the future.

Does anybody have an idea how to approach this?

Boris Callens
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Native Messaging is probably what you'll need to use. The FireBreath team is working on some possibilities for extending support to allow using it, but nothing we can definitively announce yet.

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  • This would require us to roll our own native service first. It's a solution, but I hope something better will become available. Will be following the discussion at the Firebreath site. – Boris Callens Jan 15 '15 at 10:55
  • Also, native messaging is Chrome only. – Boris Callens Jan 15 '15 at 10:55
  • Yes, Native messaging is Chrome only. There are no potential technologies on the horizon that work on all browsers, though NPAPI is so far only being dropped from Chrome. – taxilian Jan 15 '15 at 15:56
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    Brief update: the firefox team has stated on mailing lists that they plan to support native messaging as well sometime before they drop plugin support at the end of 2016 – taxilian Nov 14 '15 at 03:53