Google Chrome Removes Java

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Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ("Netscape Plugin API") to extend the browser, and with Chrome 42, that API is now off by default.

For the time being, end users who really need to use these plugins will still be able to do so. The browser has a setting to re-enable the API, and administrators will be able to use Chrome's enterprise policies to enable it to do that. However, this is time limited: in September, Google plans to remove NPAPI support entirely. Chrome on Linux removed support in version 35, and its mobile browsers don't support it either.

Google is phasing out NPAPI because it says that it's a big cause of "hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity." The company suggests that developers who were using NPAPI either use Web standards instead—the once Silverlight-dependent Netflix, for example, now uses Encrypted Media Extensions in conjunction with HTML5 video—or Google's own proprietary extension systems, such as the NaCl Native client.

These other extension mechanisms have been built to play better with Chrome's sandboxing system. Since 2010, Chrome's Flash support, for example, used an alternative Chrome API called Pepper/PPAPI, meaning that it is unaffected by today's change.

Safari and Firefox continue to support NPAPI. Internet Explorer did once, but dropped it in version 5.5 Service Pack 2.
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Not good for online gamers.
 
This is not good for people who play Runescape which uses Java.

But, Runescape also has an HTML5 player for people who don't have Java installed on their PC.

There still is Firefox, Maxthon, and Opera which supports Java.
 
froggyboy604 said:
This is not good for people who play Runescape which uses Java.

But, Runescape also has an HTML5 player for people who don't have Java installed on their PC.

There still is Firefox, Maxthon, and Opera which supports Java.
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any online gaming site really. My mom was freaking out because pogo.com is all java and she uses chrome. Or rather she did.
 
I think Firefox is a better web browser for Java web browser games because Firefox seems to use less RAM, and CPU resources compared to other web browsers like Chrome, IE, etc.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Don't matter, heavy Java games really makes the cooling fans run hard.
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I have my cooling fans on my desktop set to run at its maximum speed since I think running the fans faster will make my desktop last longer because it runs cooler all the time because of the faster speed my fans are running at.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I have my cooling fans on my desktop set to run at its maximum speed since I think running the fans faster will make my desktop last longer because it runs cooler all the time because of the faster speed my fans are running at.
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only problem is they make a loud noise.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
only problem is they make a loud noise.
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The noise of my desktop's fans is not loud compared to other noises I hear like people talking in the same room, and sound from a TV or radio.
 
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