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Google, not content with developing enhanced-reality glasses and self-driving cars, has announced a new company aimed at researching the curing of diseases and understanding the aging process. New Google company Calico to work on making you live longer - 08:35 PM Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year." Meanwhile, NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity. Today’s browsers are speedier, safer, and more capable than their ancestors. In fact, many modern web platform features-including video and audio support-first saw mainstream deployment through NPAPI-based plug-ins.īut the web has evolved. "The Netscape Plug-in API ( NPAPI) ushered in an early era of web innovation by offering the first standard mechanism to extend the browser. It appears that support of NPAPI is being phased out in order to improve security, provide better performance and raise efficiency.
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. The Chrome Web Store will also be losing support for NPAPI with all new app or extension submissions containing NPAPI being denied, effective immediately. 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). Java (8.9%) (already blocked for security).Silverlight (launched by 15% of Chrome users last month).The most popular NPAPI plug-ins (that are not already blocked) will be whitelisted by Google as part of the stage by stage change. 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. 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.
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