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 ...

计划于3月7日发布的Firefox 52将停止支持所有 NPAPI插件，但最流行的插件Flash除外。NPAPI 代表 Netscape Plugins API，最早是Firefox的前辈Netscape开发的，后来成为其它浏览器共同支持的插件标准。随着Web的演化，互联网标准组织逐渐开发出了独立的Web API在无需安装插件的 ...

Mozilla in four weeks will bar plug-ins built using a decades-old technology from Firefox, ending a years-long process designed to make the browser more secure. The single exception to the ban: ...

在此之前，Google Chrome已经停止支持Java、Silverlight这样的浏览器插件，并暂停了对Adobe Flash的支持。 今天，Mozilla官方宣布，Firefox浏览器将在2016年底彻底放弃对NPAPI类插件的支持，但唯一的例外是Flash。 这当然也是无奈之举，因为虽然很多开发者、用户都不喜欢占 ...

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 ...

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近日Google浏览器Chrome推出45.0.2454.85，这是首个Chrome 45稳定版。该版本大幅优化了内存与电量的消耗， 同时修补了多个漏洞，并正式终止支持NPAPI插件。 Chrome 45节省内存资源、修补bug、不支持NPAPI插件 Chrome 45减少内存与电量的消耗 Google表示网页载入速度、浏览 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 remove ...