Mozilla in four weeks will bar plug-ins built using a decades-old technology from Firefox, ending a years-long process designed to make the browser more secure. The single exception to the ban: ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

Mozilla yesterday announced that it will follow in Google’s footsteps and bar virtually all plug-ins built using a decades-old technology by the end of next year. “Mozilla intends to remove support ...

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Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...