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Google Dropping Netscape Plugin API Support In Chrome/Blink

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wither-portability dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it is dropping Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface support in Chrome. The company will be phasing out support over the coming year, starting with blocking webpage-instantiated plugins in January 2014. Google has looked at anonymous Chrome usage data and estimates that just six NPAPI plug-ins were used by more than 5 percent of users in the last month. To 'avoid disruption' (read: attempt to minimize the confusion) for users, Google will temporarily whitelist the most popular NPAPI plugins: Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Google Talk, and Facebook Video." Google offers NaCl as an alternative, and "Moving forward, our goal is to evolve the standards-based web platform to cover the use cases once served by NPAPI."

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  1. "standards-based web platform" by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Standards are wonderful, and everyone should have their very own!

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  2. Torture.... by wbr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google once again shuts down a service/feature, but this time they have the audacity to rub NaCl in the wound. That burns, it really does.

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