Google today announced it is dropping Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) in Chrome. The company will be phasing out support over the coming year, starting with blocking ...

Why it matters: Google is suggesting changes to Chrome APIs that will change what plugins can be installed and run. Security software and ad blockers will be drastically reduced in effectiveness or ...

A week after releasing the stable version of Chrome 31, Google has announced more features coming to Chrome 32 beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. In addition to indicators for tabs, the new ...

Google has just announced that starting with January 2014, they’ll ban all plugins that still use the very old Netscape plug-in application programming interface (NPAPI) with the exception of some ...

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 ...

Google Chrome Plugins: Yesterday, we brought you this story: Google Inc (GOOG) Chrome RSS Extension Going Away. While this was a big disappointment to some, the change did not last for long. It has ...