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Justin Schuh, Security Engineer for Google Chrome has revealed on The Chromium Blog that Google Chrome will no longer support NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) based plug-ins from the beginning of next ...
Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...
After a reversal of course, reports of the death of the NPAPI implementation of Flash Player for Linux are not only greatly exaggerated -- Adobe also wants to give it a bunch of new code. For the past ...
With the release of Chrome 42 this week, Google fixed more than 40 vulnerabilities. But the most significant security change in the new browser is Google’s decision to disable the NPAPI, essentially ...
The name “Netscape Plug-in API” (NPAPI) sounds like a relic from another age of browsers, but Chrome, Mozilla and other browsers still support this architecture for writing browser plug-ins today. But ...
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 ...
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. “NPAPI’s 90s-era ...
The release of the stable version of Google Chrome 40 "40.0.2214.91" for Windows, Mac and Linux, and the update of "Andromid version Chrome 40" following iOS version has been released. In the desktop ...
Mozilla says it’s due to many of the services offered via NPAPI — like streaming video and clipboard access — are available as native Web APIs. In addition to ease and performance, Mozilla says NPAPI ...
Google has shut down most plug-ins built for a decades-old architecture in the beta of Chrome 32, making good on a promise from September that it would nix NPAPI. NPAPI, for Netscape Plug-in ...