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 ...

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 ...

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 Chrome recently dumped support for plugins such as Java and Silverlight, and now it’s Firefox’s turn. Late Thursday, Mozilla announced on its blog that Firefox would stop supporting plugins ...

The add-on facilitates connections to TWAIN-based scanners in Chrome versions requiring HTML5-based plugins. With 10 years of experience in TWAIN and imaging SDKs ...

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 ...

Google has just announced that starting with January 2014, they’ll ban all plugins that still use the very old Netscape plug-in application programming interface (NPAPI) with the exception of some ...

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