NPAPI plug-in support

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Removed (Chrome 45)
Intent stage: None

Summary

NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity in Chrome. Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support in 2013.

Standards & signals

Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals

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