Detecting Pepper (PPAPI) Flash with Javascript

Question

We are using a proprietary document viewer which doesn\'t play terribly nice with the Pepper version of Flash found in some flavors of Chrome, so I\'d like to be able to detect

Answer 1

I think it should be done this way:

var isPPAPI = false;
var type = 'application/x-shockwave-flash';
var mimeTypes = navigator.mimeTypes;

if (mimeTypes && mimeTypes[type] && mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin &&
    mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin.filename == 'pepflashplayer.dll') isPPAPI = true;

Demo on jsFiddle.

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UPD №1: Not sure if needed, but I wrote a little explanation:

If our browser has a MIME types enumeration, we can get a plugin associated with a specified type. So we're getting plugin which associated with 'application/x-shockwave-flash' and check if its filename is 'pepflashplayer.dll'. I think that this name is constant and will not be changed in future.

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UPD №2:

To enable/disable PPAPI in Google Chrome, you should go to this page: chrome://plugins/

(Sorry, this URL needs to be pasted directly into the address bar.)

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UPD №3:

I did some investigation and found an interesting article that helped me to implement a cross-platform solution. I think that this code should work on all OS:

var isPPAPI = false;
var type = 'application/x-shockwave-flash';
var mimeTypes = navigator.mimeTypes;

var endsWith = function(str, suffix) {
    return str.indexOf(suffix, str.length - suffix.length) !== -1;
}

if (mimeTypes && mimeTypes[type] && mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin &&
   (mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin.filename == "pepflashplayer.dll" ||
    mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin.filename == "libpepflashplayer.so" ||
    endsWith(mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin.filename, "Chrome.plugin"))) isPPAPI = true;

Check out an updated fiddle.

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UPD №4:

Slightly changed the code to meet today's realities. Now condition looks like this:

if (mimeTypes && mimeTypes[type] && mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin &&
   (mimeTypes[type].enabledPlugin.filename.match(/pepflashplayer|Pepper/gi))) isPPAPI = true;

Check out jsFiddle.