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Run PPAPI Flash in the Renderer Process Appears in “About:Flags”
Posted on 04. Apr, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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The newest builds of Chromium (here if you want to download) include a new experimental feature that is in the “about:flags” menu you can access by putting that text into the Omnibox. It’s called Run PPAPI Flash in the renderer process.
PPAPI is an acronym for the Pepper plugin API implementation. Pepper is an interface that was developed by Mozilla to handle plugins, although this version is different from the old NPAPI version. A while back the Pepper API was added as a feature in Chromium’s “about:flags” for JavaScript. Now it’s an experiment for Flash-based renderer processes.
This new PPAPI will be used for running Native Client securely, and is why it has been added to Chromium’s experiments. In February, a new Native Client SDK was released that supported Pepper for developers to work on.
This is all in a goal of running Native Client in a secure fashion. It’s important that plugins don’t have any sort of elevated security privileges since that could result in problems down the line seeing as Native Client has direct access to hardware resources.
Are you developing with the Native Client SDK?
