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 ...

PPAPI也就是Pepper Plugin API，是在原有网景NPAPI(Netscape Plugin API)基础上发展而来的。 NPAPI是当今最流行的插件架构，几乎所有浏览器都支持，不过存在很大的安全隐患，插件可以窃取系统底层权限，发起恶意攻击。 2010年，Google开发了新的PPAPI，将外挂插件全部放到沙 ...

After a reversal of course, reports of the death of the NPAPI implementation of Flash Player for Linux are not only greatly exaggerated -- Adobe also wants to give it a bunch of new code. For the past ...

From the earliest days of the web, browsers were able to make up for limitations in their capabilities by allowing for plugins. These plugins could provide features the browser was never designed for, ...

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 ...

It was just last month that Mozilla unleashed Firefox 52 upon the masses, which notably signaled the beginning of the end for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins. In essence, these were disabled by ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...