{"id":12733,"date":"2015-04-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:25:17","slug":"vmware-web-client-plugin-broken-in-chrome-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-web-client-plugin-broken-in-chrome-42\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Web Client plugin broken in Chrome 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome01.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the update to release 42, Google removed NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) support from its browser Chrome breaking the VMware\u00a0Web Client plugin.<\/p>\n<p>VMware Client Integration Plugin requires NPAPI for its functionality and with the new Chrome update administrators lost some important features:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User Windows session authentication<\/li>\n<li>Transferring files from Desktop to a datastore via browser<\/li>\n<li>Deployment of OVF templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome02.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome02\" width=\"529\" height=\"239\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With NPAPI disabled, administrators have to enter their <strong>credentials manually<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome03.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome03\" width=\"600\" height=\"148\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fix<\/h2>\n<p>To fix this matter, enter the following in your Chrome browser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-npapi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then click <strong>Enable<\/strong>\u00a0option in <strong>Enable NPAPI<\/strong> row.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome04.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome04\" width=\"544\" height=\"201\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NPAPI is now enabled again. <strong>Restart<\/strong> your Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome05.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome05\" width=\"544\" height=\"201\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trying to access vSphere using the VMware Web Client, <strong>User Windows session authentication<\/strong> option is now available again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fixvmwarepluginchrome06.jpg\" alt=\"fixvmwarepluginchrome06\" width=\"600\" height=\"146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also the other disabled\u00a0features are now fully working.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"firma\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the update to release 42, Google removed NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) support from its browser Chrome breaking the VMware\u00a0Web Client plugin. 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