After a reversal of course, reports of the death of the NPAPI implementation of Flash Player for Linux are not only greatly exaggerated — Adobe also wants to give it a bunch of new code. For the past ...

Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

Adobe Flash has made an about turn on its decision to end support for its Flash Player (NPAPI) plug-in on Linux. Instead Linux will begin receiving the newest releases in sync with Windows and macOS.

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Mozilla announced plans to force users to click-to-activate all Firefox plugins, with the exception of Adobe Flash. This change will become official when Firefox 47 moves into the stable channel at ...

The much loathed Flash Player -- seen these days as little more than a resource hog and security risk -- had been cut loose on Linux. Four years ago Adobe said that the NPAPI version of the Linux ...