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Google Chrome permanently dropped all NPAPI support from all platforms in September 2015. [14] In September 2013, Google announced that it would phase out NPAPI support in its Google Chrome browser during 2014, stating that "[its] 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity".
Pepper Plugin API, or PPAPI [28] [29] is a cross-platform API for Native Client-secured web browser plugins, first based on Netscape's NPAPI, then rewritten from scratch. It was used in Chromium and Google Chrome to enable the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash [30] and the built-in PDF viewer. [31]
In 2016, Google launched Chrome Browser Enterprise Support, a paid service enabling IT admins access to Google experts to support their browser deployment. [344] In 2019, Google launched Chrome Browser Cloud Management , a dashboard that gives business IT managers the ability to control content accessibility, app usage and browser extensions ...
Since around 2017 web browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome dropped support for NPAPI plug-ins like Quicktime and Totem that could play MIDI files by clicking on an embedded link in a web page. Internet Explorer supports MIDI playback by launching Windows Media Player, which plays MIDI natively.
XAML Browser Applications (XBAP, pronounced "ex-bap") are Windows Presentation Foundation (.xbap) applications that were intended to run inside a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer through the NPAPI interface. Due to NPAPI being phased out in recent years, and from lack of support, there are currently no browsers that support XBAP ...
Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a server push technology enabling a client to receive automatic updates from a server via an HTTP connection, and describes how servers can initiate data transmission towards clients once an initial client connection has been established. They are commonly used to send message updates or continuous data streams to a ...
Flashpoint Archive (formerly BlueMaxima's Flashpoint) is an archival and preservation project that allows browser games, web animations and other general rich web applications to be played in a secure format, after all major browsers removed native support for NPAPI/PPAPI plugins in the mid-to-late 2010s as well as the plugins' deprecation.
Support for HTTP/3 was added to Chrome (Canary build) in September 2019 and then eventually reached stable builds, but was disabled by a feature flag. It was enabled by default in April 2020. [9] Firefox added support for HTTP/3 in November 2019 through a feature flag [7] [16] [17] and started enabling it by default in April 2021 in Firefox 88.