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 ...

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.

Other NPAPI-based plug-ins are used by less than five percent of the Chrome user base, Google estimates. "Eventually, NPAPI support will be completely removed from Chrome," Schuh said.

Mozilla will block NPAPI plugins in December and Google today announced that Chrome will start blocking webpage-instantiated NPAPI plugins by default in January 2014.

In September 2014, Google plans to unpublish all NPAPI-based apps and extensions permanently, although existing installations will continue to work until Chrome fully removes support for NPAPI.

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, ...

Justin Schuh, Security Engineer for Google Chrome has revealed on The Chromium Blog that Google Chrome will no longer support NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) based plug-ins from the beginning of next ...