April 16, 2015 at 23:43Google Chrome 42 Disabled Unity Web Player and Java Support
Prologue
Today, in the web interface of one of my product in place of Java applets, I found ugly stubs with the inscription "The plugin is not supported." Well, you never know, maybe Java is out of date, I'll go and update it.
I went to java.com, downloaded the update, installed it, and there ...
What happened?
Google decided to abandon support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface),
Google had previously warned that it would do this by restricting NPAPI plugins to a white list . However, most users didn’t even notice this at that time, because the list included just the most popular plugins.
Instead of NPAPI, Chrome developers are promoting their API, but somehow not too successfully.
What to do?
Until September 2015, you can turn everything back on through chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi, but then this feature will also be hidden. Burned out, the era of the great sailing ships ended ...
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- 44.8% I will continue to use Chrome as the main browser 2272
- 14.2% Used Chrome as the main browser, reviewing their views 723
- 12.3% I will continue to use Chrome as a secondary browser 627
- 4.1% Used Chrome as a secondary browser, reviewing their views 211
- 20.9% Did not use Chrome and will not 1062
- 3.2% Did not use Chrome, but now we’ll heal! 166