CRICUT: Design Space Chrome Plugin message

If you're accessing Design Space using the Google Chrome browser, you might be seeing a message that says "This site uses a plugin (Cricut) that will soon be unsupported."

No need to panic! Design Space isn't suddenly going to stop working.

That message is advising you that in September 2015 programs (such as the Cricut Design Space) that use a plugin called NPAPI will be unable to load.

Sounds scary... but Provocraft have plans in place that will still allow Design Space to work.

If you see that message on your screen, simply click the x at the end of that yellow message bar. O



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Google Chrome V43 crashing

Tonight I updated Google Chrome to the latest version.

Immediately after updating Chrome started crashing. This is the error I received even after restarting Chrome and my computer.

My first thought was that I might have to go and enable NPAPI again. But it was already enabled.

It wasn't crashing on every site I visited but many of them. I narrowed the problem down to sites that used Flash.  That included Design Space and Facebook.

I went to chrome://plugins/ expecting to have to enable the NPAPI version of Shockwave Flash but it was already enabled.

The PPAPI version was disabled (to help with previous Shockwave crashes) so I enabled it.

And the problem went away! Yay!!

Hope this works for you if you're having the same problem.

Happy crafting!  �

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Any commission I receive is used to offset the costs of maintaining this website (domain fees etc) and file/photo storage fees for files that I share with my readers. It also goes towards the cost of giveaways and postage at Cricut Lovers Guide to Design Space Facebook group. 

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CRICUT: Fixing the Design Space plugin problem in Chrome

UPDATE: Cricut Design Space no longer uses the NPAPI plugin, so this information no longer applies.


If you haven't used Design Space for a couple of weeks and you're a Google Chrome user then when you update Chrome you'll probably be repeatedly prompted to download the Design Space plugin.

Here's what you need to do to fix that problem.

Happy crafting!  �

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Any commission I receive is used to offset the costs of maintaining this website (domain fees etc) and file/photo storage fees for files that I share with my readers. It also goes towards the cost of giveaways and postage at Cricut Lovers Guide to Design Space Facebook group. 

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