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 ...

Changing Web usage is hard. Google has granted a few extra months of leeway to those who rely on a handful of popular plug-ins, such as Silverlight, to extend what their browser can do. Stephen ...

Plug-ins based on the NPAPI architecture will be blocked by default in Chrome starting early next year as Google moves toward completely removing support for them in the browser. “NPAPI’s 90s-era ...

The add-on facilitates connections to TWAIN-based scanners in Chrome versions requiring HTML5-based plugins. With 10 years of experience in TWAIN and imaging SDKs ...

Starting in Firefox 69, Mozilla will be disabling support for the Adobe Flash plugin by default. This is being done as part of the roadmap set forth by Mozilla on how they will be ultimately disable ...

Oracle has announced that the days of the Java browser plugin are numbered, with its deprecation set for the upcoming Java Development Kit 9 release and its removal slated for a future release. The ...