freeman440

The recording was not only interesting, but also very informative and useful.
This article can be used as a small reference.
I look forward to continuing :)

Andrey

Thanks for the articles help a lot, while I still choose ssd

Victor

Vadim, I'm glad you didn't postpone the article about SSD in long box... But I could not imagine that you will get a whole cycle. Super!
At the same time, this is not just another article to order, but akin to a whole confession. Moreover, from my own experience. Which is doubly valuable.
I am already silent about all sorts of technical trifles, which you can hardly read about in other articles. In general, sensible articles come out of your pen. We look forward to continuing!

were you interested in this entry

Naturally. Even more. Since the question of buying an SSD is on the agenda

did she help you with anything

Let's just say, expanded the horizons of my knowledge of SSD

what exactly new have you learned

The fact that there are only 4 NAND manufacturers in the world, about SLC, MLC and TLC, about synchronous and asynchronous memory, an interesting reference for checking data, and a lot of other little things.
In general, for me the article turned out to be very informational.
We look forward to continuing!
P.S. And about "General overviews of SSD components have nothing to do with this." quit it. What are Windows and other software installed on? That's right - on disks. SSD including. So, everything is closely interconnected here.

Leonid

Dima

Thank you Vadim.
The choice was made according to the reviews of colleagues in the forum, the article confirmed that he had made the right choice.
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Moreover, there is room for improvement - the board supports SATA ||
At the time of purchase, criteria price / availability + recommendations.
I don't understand hardware, but I'm interested.
New - synchronous / asynchronous + good example about strawberries.

Victor: P.S. And about "General overviews of SSD components have nothing to do with this" you throw it. What are Windows and other software installed on? That's right - on disks. SSD including. So, everything is closely interconnected here.
And if you expand the thematic framework of your blog a little, I think there will be nothing wrong with that.

I subscribe.

Anatoly

Thank you Vadim. I am faced with the choice of buying an SSD so your article came in handy.

Andrey

I know that it is an OEM, but the manufacturer (a Chinese company on S ... forgot the name) is one of the largest OEM suppliers. Plus a guarantee that from Plekstor, that from the seller - 5 years. this bribed))

something my answer left down. replied to this comment:

Valery

Andrey: I know that it is an OEM, but the manufacturer (a Chinese company on S ... forgot the name) is one of the largest OEM suppliers.

Discs for Plextor are made by almost Taiwanese Lite-On. But yes, the factories are most likely located in China.

a) the article was not very interesting (why see point b);
b) it didn’t help, because I had already decided on the choice;
c) a site with a base on SSD.

I will answer questions 1 and 2 after purchase.

Victor

Vadim Sterkin: Well, yes, about Windows 8, in your opinion, I write articles to order (apparently from Microsoft). It's surprising that it didn't occur to you that this article was ordered by Intel, Samsung, Crucial, OCZ and, of course, Corsair.

Eh, Vadim, you misunderstood me, I wrote about something completely different. About the fact that on other sites, many order articles on freelance. And they write to them in general terms, without deeply understanding the essence. Right there, in your article, everything is laid out on the shelves. The beauty!
This is how it happens, you compliment a person, and you can be misinterpreted.
By the way, the expression

It doesn't matter what you said. More important is how you are heard.

found in this case, another confirmation.

Vadim Sterkin: Tellingly, there is not a drop in this material personal experience product use

Well, it turns out I was wrong. Although you chose the SSD, bought it, use it now. This is not an experience, is it?

Serge

Serge

And yet, NOT as an example of a combination of obsolescence of materials and poorly placed accents, but more of opposition.

Since the advice is "HARMFUL", what kind of "combination" can we talk about. THIS IS THE CONTRAST.

Well, or as an option, you can explain yourself unambiguously and without equivocation (so God forbid not to offend your colleagues). “- THIS is, in my opinion, true. And This is NO. "

Vladimir

Vadim, don't try to stop the series about SSD drives :)
I am planning to buy a 512 GB SSD this year.
Thank you for your helpful work that you bring me with every new blog post!

spax

After my ssd vertex 2 burned out and they showed me a whole cabinet of killed ssd from ocz in the service center, my trust in them was finally undermined. Most likely, in the new series, all the shortcomings were fixed, but I will no longer buy ssd from ocz.
I chose intel 320 series. it has been working for half a year and no problems.

Anatoly

Hello Vadim. I decided to opt for OCZ Vertex 4 2.5 VTX4-25SAT3-256G... I am interested in your opinion on this drive.

Andrey K.

Thank you very much for the "exposing" article. Your stories about Windows help me and your point of view: to manage by means of the Windows OS itself, is close to me and I share it. With your help, I learned to overcome the "inconveniences of maintenance" of the system itself and am more and more convinced of it reliability, your judgments are authoritative for me. Thank you!

Alexander Gorlov

Actually, I will give the best strawberries to those I love. Probably Toshiba is doing this with its NAND?

And thank you very much!

Pavel Nagaev

Pleased with this:

At a flagship plant in the US state of Utah, the same memory is produced under the brands of the two companies in almost equal proportions. From the assembly line of the factory in Singapore, which is now controlled by Micron, the memory can also go under the brand name of its subsidiary SpecTek.

Vadim, is that where it could be dug up?

Fasting is beautiful and gorgeous; it is useful as a broadening of one's horizons.

Vadim, anyway, this is good material, so write and disappear, you are doing a good deed.

Anatoly

Vadim Sterkin, thanks. This is quite enough to "cool down" a little.

Sergio

Thank you, it turned out to be a very useful text. After reading it, I just realized that when buying a "body accumulator" there is nothing to worry about. Companies (brands) that sell themselves have sorted the products into the desired price category. The only thing I realized is that it is better to buy brands of those that themselves crystallize this memory. those. samsung and intel.

Vladimir

Vadim Sterkin: Vladimir, why do you need a 512 GB SSD? This is a serious investment, it must have some kind of justification.

Going to use it like system disk+ I want to transfer caches of many programs to it: browser, picture viewer (Fast Stone), swap file operating system and the Windows indexing database, as well as the cache of some programs from Adobe (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Audition).
Plus, I need high speed The read capacity of a 512GB SSD will be higher than that of smaller drives. So far, it seems so.

What if you come across the phrase Chrome Flags Enable Npapi? Similar 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 its "colleagues", a program based on the 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. There are many hidden options here that are not found 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 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 enable automatic error correction. 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 for disabling, then let's move on to the incomprehensible word NPAPI. This, as you might guess, is an abbreviation. Translated into Russian, we get the "Netscape plug-in programming interface".

In simple terms, this is some kind of architecture, thanks to which plugins can appear. Most likely, the question will arise, what are the 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

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 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 to have 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 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 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 appeared the "Restart" button. By the way, next to the inclusion there was information that this method is suitable for those who work with browser versions from 42nd to 45th. 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, because 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 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.

After updating the browser, many users faced the problem of launching plugins for Java, Unity and the like. The fact is that most of the browser developers have decided to abandon the NPAPI technology required for add-ons to work. But in some cases plugins may be required. How to enable Chrome Flags Enable NPAPI in Yandex Browser, Mozilla, Chrome, read on.

What is NPAPI

NPAPI is the technology needed to keep plugins running in the browser. It was first used in 1995 and is now considered obsolete. Therefore, the browser developers decided to stop supporting it. Instead of NPAPI, more up-to-date and secure PPAPI, HTML5 and Native Client technologies will be used.

So far only Mozilla Firefox continues to support NPAPI, but with the release of version 52, it will also ditch the legacy technology. The only plugin that will have support by default is Flash Player.

But not all application providers managed to update their products, including those required to run games and multimedia content on sites: Silverlight, Java, Unity.

How to enable flags enable NPAPI in Yandex, Google Chrome and Opera browsers

Yandex Browser, Google Chrome and Opera have stopped supporting NPAPI and it is not possible to enable support for this technology. What can be done:

• Use a browser that supports the technology: Mozilla (up to version 52), IE (supports some popular plugins, including Java) Safari (on Mac OS X);
• try to rollback the browser version.

How to downgrade your browser

A safe method to revert to a previous version of the browser is to roll back the system. But this method also has its drawbacks: there is not always a suitable restore point, and when you roll back, all programs and settings made after the date the restore point was created will disappear.

To restore previous version browser using system rollback, the browser of the required version must have been installed on the computer at one time. For example, if you recently installed a new browser, then the old versions of it were never in the system.

To start System Restore:

• open the Control Panel;
• in the search, write "Recovery";
• open "System Restore";
• select a restore point;
• to check, click "Search for affected programs";
• if your browser is listed, you can start recovery;
• after clicking the "Finish" button, the recovery will begin.

Disconnect the internet to prevent the browser from updating and disable automatic update.

For Google Chrome, Opera and Yandex browser:

Chrome and Opera will stop installing new versions after deleting the file, but to disable Yandex browser updates, you need to delete a few more files:

In addition to rolling back the system, you can try to find an old version of your favorite browser that supports NPAPI on the Internet. But this is a very dangerous method, as such files may contain viruses.

Internet Explorer

NPAPI in IE is not supported with the release of version 5 of the browser. The ability to install NPAPI plugins remains, but in case of problems, technical support Microsoft won't be able to solve them.

ActiveX must be enabled to use NPAPI. This technology keeps the browser secure and downloads applications when needed.

To enable ActiveX:

After installing the necessary plugins, you may need to enable them manually:

Mozilla Firefox

In March 2017, an updated Mozilla browser which will not support NPAPI. For 64-bit users Windows Firefox already disabled this technology.

To continue using your usual plugins, you can turn off automatic browser updates and use old version... But, this can lead to instability of the browser. How to do it:

If you have Mozilla versions 51 or lower for 32-bit Windows versions, but NPAPI is not working, so it is disabled. To enable it:

You can also download Mozilla Firefox ESR. This browser is intended for corporate use, but ordinary users can also work in it. It is also distributed free of charge. NPAPI support in Mozilla Firefox ESR is planned until 2018.

Possible mistakes

Problems that may arise:

1. Installed a browser with NPAPI support, but the plugins still don't work. There can be two reasons: NPAPI is disabled or a specific application is disabled, for example, Unity. The point is that they are considered vulnerable and can be disabled by default. Go to the browser settings and in the add-ons section manually enable the required plugins.
2. The second problem is computer security. NPAPI was dropped mainly due to a vulnerability. Also, if you did not want to install a second browser, but downloaded an outdated version of the browser from the Internet, you are putting your computer at risk. Developers distribute only the latest versions of their products, and by downloading the installer from questionable sources, you can introduce a virus into the system.

NPAPI is disabled on many browsers, but to use plugins, you can install a second browser that supports this technology. Although not very convenient, it is still a safer and more acceptable way.

Google has long publicized its intention to end support for NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in Programming Interface). And so, starting with the 42nd version of the Chrome web browser, released in April 2015, this function disabled by default. All applications are actively moving from outdated technologies to more current HTML5 and Native Client. However, there are still sites that use this interface, and many users are interested in the question of how to enable NPAPI support in Google browser Chrome v42 and older.

Until Google stopped supporting NPAPI, it can still be enabled:

but this way is relevant only until the release of the 45th version, which will be released in September 2015. From then on, the Netscape interface will be completely removed from the Chrome code, and it will be impossible to enable it.

Reasons and stages of blocking

NPAPI was developed by Netscape back in the nineties for the needs of that time. Internet technologies have undergone significant changes since then. Today this feature creates many vulnerabilities in the system. personal computer and consumes a significant amount of resources and quickly drains the batteries of devices. Outdated architecture causes intermittent crashes and freezes, requires writing a large number extra code and time to debug.

Because there is a huge audience that uses Java or Silverlight on a daily basis, the company took the slow and smooth path of shutdown, divided into several stages.

Since 2013, Google employees have warned users about their plans to end support for the interface and block all plugins that use it. The first measures were taken in early 2014, when the work of extensions and sites with NPAPI was interrupted, and in order to continue it, it was necessary to confirm their intention to use these functions.

Version 42 brought with it the following change - this interface by default, it is simply disabled. Plugins that require NPAPI have been disabled and are gradually being removed from the navigator.plugins lists. However, there are still ways to enable these plugins when needed.

In Google Chrome v45, which is scheduled for release in September 2015, this feature will no longer be available. All NPAPI functions will be removed from the browser code. From then on, users who need to work with this API will have to use other web browsers for this purpose.

Consequences of disconnection

The April update affects all plugins and plugins based on the Netscape interface. The most popular ones are Java, Unity and Silverlight. Attempts to launch the Java applet will receive a mismatch message explaining that starting from the 42nd Google versions Chrome does not support this technology.

A popular search query is how to enable unsupported plugins in Chrome and why they are no longer used.

Before pointing out the reasons for abandoning such a system and mentioning new features, it should be said that NPAPI in Google is recognized as an outdated architectural platform for the operation of sites.

The module of their work is no longer able to withstand modern ways data processing, and the use of old systems is at great risk from viruses and the fraudsters themselves in the form of hackers, who, thanks to the vulnerability, are able to download information from the system media and in different ways affect the performance of Windows and its programs.

Disconnected plugins and alternative

Give it credit - this system was used by the system from the very beginning and has already exhausted its functionality to the end. Precisely because of the reason for its unnecessary and outdated technology, Chrome is disabled by default starting from the 42nd version (it was released in the fall of 2015).

With the abandonment of use, the following programs that were previously working by default stopped working: Silverlight, Java, Unity.

As for the question of how to work with sites without the preinstalled above programs, the answer is simple - all sites soon implemented all their functions, they are now connecting independently. List of settings in latest versions looks like the picture below.

Google developers recommend opening and using sites requiring the installation of the above products in other Internet browsers in order to avoid conflict new system, with old installations that you manually run at your own risk.

How to enable them in Google Chrome anyway

The installation of plugins is not limited and the user can independently return them to his Google Chrome browser. On this moment there are applications on the Internet that require installed plugin Java or Unity, so there are several ways to install on the NIPP platform.

The easiest way is to download other software that still uses NPAPI (for example, Mozilla Firefox) and use its capabilities.

But if the desire to work exceeds the ability to change the browser to another, we recommend rolling back to a version in which nothing has been deleted or disabled yet (up to the 45th version). To rollback do the following.