Google has a fix for the issue of NPAPI apps not being supported on all platforms despite this being their entire reason for existence. The fix is quite simple and ingenious when you think about it.

NPAPI plugins will be phased out during the next year in Chrome (Google) Google announced last week that it would be phasing out support for older Chrome plugins based on the ancient NPAPI ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ...

Google will join Mozilla in axing support for Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI)-based browser plug-ins, which it blames for "hangs, crashes, security incidents and code complexity". The web giant's ...

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 ...

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 ...