Google Chrome: All NPAPI Plugins Blocked By Default From January 2015

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It's the final countdown for those plugins still white-listed. From January 2015 the white-list will go and all the plugins will be blocked.

Since our last update, NPAPI usage has continued its decline. Given this usage data, we will continue with our deprecation plan.Google Chrome: All NPAPI Plugins Blocked By Default From January 2015 [blog.chromium.org]

Currently Chrome supports NPAPI plugins, but they are blocked by default unless the user chooses to allow them for specific sites (via the page action UI). A small number of the most popular plugins are whitelisted and allowed by default. In January 2015 we will remove the whitelist, meaning all plugins will be blocked by default.