Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI ("Netscape Plugin API", the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

As Mozilla noted, other browser makers have also ditched NPAPI plugins. Google dropped support in April with the release of Chrome 42, and Microsoft killed them with the launch of Edge in July.

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have already dropped support for NPAPI plugins, so Mozilla is playing a bit of catch-up here.

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Chrome 42, the latest version of the Web browser, does not support the NPAPI plugin, something that the Unity Web Player is built on. Other browsers have decided to move away from plugin support ...

Mozilla will follow in Google's footsteps and bar virtually all plug-ins built using a decades-old technology by the end of next year.

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

Starting in January 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will block all old-school Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI) plugins. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given that Google started its efforts to ...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 52 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes support for WebAssembly, a warning for non-secure HTTP pages with logins, and the removal of NPAPI ...