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

Google has announced it's killing off the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) in Chrome, blocking the plugins from January 2014. Google said today it used anonymous Chrome ...

Starting in January 2015, all NPAPI plug-ins will be blocked by default, but Google has left die-hard plug-in users a way to re-enable NPAPI support via the Enterprise Policy system in Chrome.

The last step, in September 2015, will be to completely remove all ability to run NPAPI plug-ins from Chrome. Google also recommends plug-in programmers look to its NPAPI deprecation guide for advice.