Plug-ins based on the NPAPI architecture will be blocked by default in Chrome starting early next year as Google moves toward completely removing support for them in the browser.

Plug-ins based on the NPAPI architecture will be blocked by default in Chrome starting early next year as Google moves toward completely removing support for them in the browser.

Google has turned off support for NPAPI in Chrome, disabling plugins such as Java.

But it's been tough getting Chrome users to completely stop using those plug-ins. In September 2013, Google announced its plan to cut off support for NPAPI plug-ins.

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The SDK plugin add on currently supports the latest version of Chrome on Windows®. With this new HTML5 component, developers can use it alongside Dynamsoft's original ActiveX and NPAPI plugins, and ...

Late Thursday, Mozilla announced on its blog that Firefox would stop supporting plugins based on the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) architecture by the end of 2016.

Google today announced it is dropping Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) in Chrome. The company will be phasing out support over the coming year, starting with blocking ...

As outlined in the NPAPI Deprecation Guide, Chrome 42, which was due this month and was recently released to the stable channel, has disabled support for the Netscape Plug-in API. The reason is ...

Chrome's Flash does not use NPAPI, as Google was unhappy with both its performance characteristics and its security implications. No such exceptions are on the cards for other plugins.

Stating that “NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity”, Google intends to remove the Netscape Plug-in API. This is ...