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 ...

Google today removed apps and extensions that use the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) from the Chrome Web Store home page, search results, and category pages. The company ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 will join Mozilla in axing support for Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI)-based browser plug-ins, which it blames for "hangs, crashes, security incidents and code complexity". The web giant's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google plans to completely remove support for the popular Netscape Plug-in APIs from Chrome by the end of 2014 Plug-ins based on the NPAPI architecture will be blocked by default in Chrome starting ...

Google will join Mozilla in removing support for Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI)-based browser plug-ins, which it blames for "hangs, crashes, security incidents and code complexity". The web giant's ...