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

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.

Reliant on plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity, and Java? Make plans to move on or change browsers, because most plug-ins will be banned from Chrome in the next year.

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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.