Google also will remove all NPAPI plug-ins from its Chrome Web Store at this stage. The last step, in September 2015, will be to completely remove all ability to run NPAPI plug-ins from Chrome.

And of that list of most-popular NPAPI plug-ins, Java is already blocked by default for security reasons. Microsoft chose to enable Flash Player in Windows 8 through an exceptional procedure.

Google banned NPAPI plug-ins from Chrome in 2015 and Opera Software followed suit last year in its flagship Opera browser, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) has always called on its own ...

Starting in January 2015, all NPAPI plug-ins will be blocked by default, but Google has left die-hard plug-in users a way to re-enable NPAPI support via the Enterprise Policy system in Chrome.

Firefox dropping NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016—except for Flash Mozilla joins Microsoft, Google in ditching most binary browser plugins.