Unity Web Player and Java support disabled in Google Chrome 42

Prologue

Today, in the web interface of one of the products I use in place of Java applets, I found an ugly stub with the inscription "Plugin is not supported." Well, you never know, maybe Java is outdated, I'll go update.

I went to java.com, downloaded the update, installed it, and there ...


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What happened?

Google decided to abandon support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface), an ancient time-tested API for implementing plug-ins in browsers, including Java, Silverlight, Unity Web Player, Flash Player. The API was developed in 1995 for Netscape Navigator 2.0.

Google has warned before that it will do this by restricting NPAPI plug-ins to a white list . However, the majority of users did not even notice this then, because the list includes the most popular plug-ins.

Instead of NPAPI, Chrome developers are promoting their API, but somehow not too successfully.

What to do?

Until September 2015, you can enable everything back through chrome: // flags / # enable-npapi, but then they will cover this opportunity. The era of the great sailing ships burnt down ...

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