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Guru3D.com » News » Google Chrome will no longer support NPAPI from January 2014

Google Chrome will no longer support NPAPI from January 2014

by morbias on: 09/24/2013 12:03 AM | source: | 12 comment(s)
Google Chrome will no longer support NPAPI from January 2014

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 year. The ability to whitelist specific plug-ins will be provided in the short term but all support is likely to be fully dropped by 2015.

The most popular NPAPI plug-ins (that are not already blocked) will be whitelisted by Google as part of the stage by stage change. These are:

 

  • Silverlight (launched by 15% of Chrome users last month)
  • Unity (9.1%)
  • Google Earth (9.1%)
  • Java (8.9%) (already blocked for security)
  • Google Talk (8.7%)
  • Facebook Video (6.0%)

The built-in Flash plug-in and PDF viewer will not be affected by the change as they are based on PPAPI (Pepper Plugin API).

The Chrome Web Store will also be losing support for NPAPI with all new app or extension submissions containing NPAPI being denied, effective immediately. Currently available items in the Chrome Web store which contain NPAPI will be removed in September 2014 but developers will still be able to update their apps and extensions until then.

It appears that support of NPAPI is being phased out in order to improve security, provide better performance and raise efficiency.

"The Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) ushered in an early era of web innovation by offering the first standard mechanism to extend the browser. In fact, many modern web platform features—including video and audio support—first saw mainstream deployment through NPAPI-based plug-ins.

But the web has evolved. Today’s browsers are speedier, safer, and more capable than their ancestors. Meanwhile, NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity. Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year."







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Ghosty
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#4660617 Posted on: 09/24/2013 12:11 AM
Only ever found one site (Sky News) that uses Silverlight. Wont be missed.

sykozis
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#4660625 Posted on: 09/24/2013 12:25 AM
Amazon uses Silverlight for video ******ing in IE. Microsoft's own website also uses Silverlight.

DesGaizu
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#4660627 Posted on: 09/24/2013 12:26 AM
Amazon uses Silverlight for video ******ing in IE. Microsoft's own website also uses Silverlight.


Read that as video f*cking.

Exodite
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#4660628 Posted on: 09/24/2013 12:26 AM
Not that it matters, Google still needs to give me a reason to move past Chrome 27. :/

sykozis
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#4660632 Posted on: 09/24/2013 12:45 AM
Read that as video f*cking.


the filter for the forum seems to censor perfectly acceptable words for some reason.... but, the censored part is...

s t r e a m i n g

Not that it matters, Google still needs to give me a reason to move past Chrome 27. :/


google hasn't given me any reason to use Chrome at all....

I even use Firefox for Android....

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