Chrome 4.2 and vBulletin / Facebook plugin and Javascript

[Richy]

We are about to enable the Facebook plugin and so have upgraded PHP to 5.5.9 and vBulletin to the latest 5.1.6 Patch Level 1.

However as you are all probably aware, Google has decreed that Chrome will not support any NPAPI Plugins from September 2015, which includes any Java/Javascript. In fact from the latest version of Chrome 4.2 which was released during April, Java is disabled by default and even manually enabling it is causing issues with other web sites which have Java inclusions. I note that the Facebook plugin for vBulletin requires Javascript to be enabled, so are there any plans for this plugin to be updated to work with Chrome in the future?

Looking at our stats, the majority of member connections are via Chrome.

Thanks R

[glennrocksvb]

vBulletin and Facebook SDK do not use NPAPI plugins. They both use Javascript but do not use NPAPI. NPAPI is only used for developing browser extensions/add-ons.

Btw, I think you meant Chrome 42 not 4.2

[Wayne Luke]

We don't use Java at all in vBulletin 5.X either. Java and JavaScript are two unrelated and different programming languages these days.

There should be no adjustments needed for Facebook Connect to work in Chrome. If Chrome stopped parsing Javascript, 90% of the Web would stop working. Including all of Google's own websites.

[Richy]

Thank you guys, appreciate the quick answers. Yes I meant v42 LOL .