Changing Web usage is hard. Google has granted a few extra months of leeway to those who rely on a handful of popular plug-ins, such as Silverlight, to extend what their browser can do. Stephen ...

Chrome's built-in Flash plugin and PDF viewer are unaffected because they don’t use NPAPI. "NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code ...

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 ...

Google bloquera par défaut toutes les extensions basées sur NPAPI en janvier 2015. Quelques-unes sont encore tolérées dans le navigateur, parce qu'elles sont encore fortement utilisées. Mais ...

Reliant on plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity, and Java? Make plans to move on or change browsers, because most plug-ins will be banned from Chrome in the next year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

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 ...