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Firefox 52 Release Marks End for Windows XP and NPAPI
After over a decade, the relationship between Windows XP and Firefox is finally coming to an end. With the roll-out of Firefox 52, Mozilla is releasing the final version of their still popular browser to support Windows XP. Another operating system getting cut as is well is decade old Windows…
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New Google Chrome Update Will No Longer Support Java
Chrome Version 42; The answer to life, the universe and everything? Not for much longer as Google have deprecated NPAPI, NPAPI stands for Netscape Plug-in API. A feature of Chrome to allow extensions to interface with the local machine. This doesn’t come as a surprise though, Google started their efforts…
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Google to End Chrome’s NPAPI Support
By Autumn 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will cease supporting NPAPI protocol. The biggest knock-on effect will be that Microsoft’s web application framework Silverlight will be incompatible with Google Chrome. Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface, or NPAPI, is considered a rather outdated protocol, at least as far as Google is concerned.…
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