Using web players in different browsers

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i found a code that allows me to add my web player game to a webpage using html. but this only works in firefox, can anyone tell me why?

 <object id="UnityObject"
               classid="clsid:444785F1-DE89-4295-863A-D46C3A781394"
               width="90%"
               height="700"
               codebase="http://webplayer.unity3d.com/download_webplayer/UnityWebPlayer.cab#version=2,0,0,0">
          <param name="Rip Off/Rip Off.unity3d"
                 value="Rip Off/Rip Off.unity3d"/>
              <embed id="UnityEmbed"
                     src="Rip Off/Rip Off.unity3d"
                     width="90%"
                     height="700"
                     style = "border-style : solid;  border-color: #006666; border-width :20px;"
                     type="application/vnd.unity"
                     pluginspage="http://www.unity3d.com/unity-web-player-2.x" />
      </object>

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Well, you're not up-to-date ^^ You should read this carefully.

Basically you can blame google because they took the liberty of removing NPAPI support because they want to force developers to switch to "newer" technology like WebGL as they have decided that this very old plugin interface is a security problem. Most security issues aren't really related to the interface but to some plugins (like the flash player and others). Usually the user had to decide if they want to install a certain plugin or not.

Unfortunately almost all other browser developers want to do the same, even FireFox. So by the end of 2016 pretty much all browsers, including FireFox, will no longer support NPAPI plugins. Unity now provides WebGL as target platform, but it's not even close to be a replacement for the webplayer. Every second time when i load WebGL content it just freezes after loading. The load times are way longer and it can regularly crash the whole browser. A lot features the webplayer had are no longer supported due to the very strict sandbox websites run in.

Your only option to still use plugins in other webbrowsers than FireFox is, to install an older version of that browser.

Using web players in different browsers

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