Developer Oracle in a blog post said it would end providing the Java plugin following the decision of developers of browsers such as Chrome and Microsoft Edge to cease support for a plugin interface ...

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 ...

Oracle has finally announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on its Java browser plugin. It’s the end of an era. Oracle has announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on the Java browser plugin.

Oracle has announced that it will kill the much-maligned Java browser plugin in the next release of the Java Development Kit, slated for release next year. For years, the bundled plugin put users at ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

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