Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the earliest days of the web, browsers were able to make up for limitations in their capabilities by allowing for plugins. These plugins could provide features the browser was never designed for, ...

Four years ago, Adobe made a decision to stop updating the Flash Player package (NPAPI) on Linux, aside from delivering security patches. It has made an about turn on this decision in the last week ...

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...