In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us who use traditional ...

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 ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mozilla today launched Firefox 52 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

The release of the stable version of Google Chrome 40 "40.0.2214.91" for Windows, Mac and Linux, and the update of "Andromid version Chrome 40" following iOS version has been released. In the desktop ...

On Friday Oct. 9, Mozilla confirmed that by the end of 2016 the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) will no longer feature plugin support in its browser. The concentrated efforts ...

We told you in July about the Chrome team’s announcement last year that they planned to remove NPAPI support from Chrome by the end of 2014. This includes the Google Earth plugin that uses NPAPI. Last ...

Firefox 52 is out today, and it's a landmark release for a couple of reasons. The release is the final major version to support two legacy operating systems: Windows XP and Windows Vista. Future major ...