Netscape's open source descendent will be removing NPAPI plugin support by the end of 2016. Some variants of the browser, such as 64-bit Firefox for Windows, already lack this plugin support.

Google has outlined further details of its plans to completely remove plugins that make Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) from the Chrome ecosystem by September 2015. As it currently stands, all NPAPI ...

Chrome 42, the latest version of the Web browser, does not support the NPAPI plugin, something that the Unity Web Player is built on. Other browsers have decided to move away from plugin support ...

NPAPI plug-ins were blocked since January 2014, but some of the popular ones were whitelisted, including Java, Unity, Silverlight, Facebook Video, and a couple of others.

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

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 ...

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 ...

By the end of 2016, Mozilla will cut off support for Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugins. Mozilla says it’s due to many of the services offered via NPAPI — like ...

We told you in July about the Chrome team’s announcement last year that they planned to remove NPAPI support from Chrome by the end of 2014. This includes the Google Earth plugin that uses NPAPI ...

In the time since the last major NPAPI Flash release, Firefox, the most-used non-PPAPI browser on Linux, has taken steps to stamp out NPAPI plugins and Flash.

Chrome removed NPAPI support in September 2015, and Internet Explorer dropped it years ago; Microsoft's Edge browser includes neither NPAPI nor ActiveX plugin support.