Google has turned off support for NPAPI in Chrome, disabling plugins such as Java.

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.

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.

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web.

Google has announced it's killing off the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) in Chrome, blocking the plugins from January 2014. Google said today it used anonymous Chrome ...