There's one plugin that traditionally used NPAPI that's special: Flash. Chrome and Edge both embed and update their own versions of the Flash plugin, and even after 2016, Firefox will continue to ...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have already dropped support for NPAPI plugins, so Mozilla is playing a bit of catch-up here.

Other browser makers have ditched NPAPI plugins as well; Google dropped support in April with the release of Chrome 42, and Microsoft killed them with the launch of Edge in July.

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, ...

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.

Mozilla today announced its intention to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugin support from Firefox “by the end of 2016.” The company has been working, along ...

Late Thursday, Mozilla announced on its blog that Firefox would stop supporting plugins based on the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) architecture by the end of 2016.

Mozilla next month will bar plug-ins built using a decades-old technology from Firefox, ending a years-long effort to make the browser more secure.

Other browser makers have ditched NPAPI plugins as well; Google dropped support in April with the release of Chrome 42, and Microsoft killed them with the launch of Edge in July.