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 ...

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ...

Google has announced it will begin blocking most Chrome plug-ins that use the popular Netscape API in 2014 with plans to completely remove support by the end of that year. The era of web browsers ...

From the earliest days of the web, browsers were able to make up for limitations in their capabilities by allowing for plugins. These plugins could provide features the browser was never designed for, ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

Oracle has announced that the days of the Java browser plugin are numbered, with its deprecation set for the upcoming Java Development Kit 9 release and its removal slated for a future release. The ...

It was just last month that Mozilla unleashed Firefox 52 upon the masses, which notably signaled the beginning of the end for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins. In essence, these were disabled by ...