Future of pluginsĪlthough the NPAPI interface is not supported forever in Chrome, Edge and Opera, the plugins developers have the chance to use other alternatives such as the secure PPAPI infrastructure in Chrome. Microsoft Edge and Opera are also not supporting NPAPI. There is no need to install them separately: 1- Flash player: Moreover, they are pre-built into Google Chrome 45. In fact, they will not work anymore: 1- Java appletĪlthough NPAPI plugins are not supported anymore, the following plugins are still working on Chrome 45 because they were re-designed using the new Google integrated interface PPAPI. The following famous plugins will have no more support in Chrome. The NPAPI infrastructure was designed in 1995 by Netscape and the plugin that runs over NPAPI infrastructure will have, by default, full permissions over the client’s computer. NPAPI plugins were deprecated because of their security risks. The deadline for Google Chrome was version 45, pushed worldwide just a few hours ago. Since 2013, Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, such as Opera, has warned programmers all over the world to avoid using NPAPI plugins in web-based systems anymore. Starting from 1 September 2015, Google has finally released Google Chrome 45, which does not support NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) anymore.

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