Edge, the browser that replaces Internet Explorer in Windows 10, shows the same indifference to plugin compatible browsing. It seems that WebGL is keen on taking the cake in the browsing world.

Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in Internet Explorer 5.5, and its Edge browser in Windows 10 also drops support for ActiveX plugins.

“NPAPI-based plugins have long served developers and users to enhance browser capabilities,” said Amy Gu , Vice President of Dynamsoft. “But, these plugins will be phased out by the industry over a ...

Microsoft Edge is not Internet Explorer If you have Windows 10 installed on your computer, Microsoft's newest browser "Edge" comes preinstalled as the default browser. Even though Edge is a web ...

Firefox is also slowly phasing out NPAPI plugins and as far as we know the latest Internet Explorer only allows them in the 32 bit version in compatibility mode and not at all in the 64-bit version.

All of a sudden, the browser plug-in as we know it is starting to look mighty unpopular. Microsoft barred plug-ins from the modern UI version of Internet Explorer 10 right out of the Windows 8 ...

Internet Explorer and Safari are expected to be the only browsers left that will accept NPAPI plugins after this year.

Chrome removed NPAPI support in September 2015, and Internet Explorer dropped it years ago; Microsoft's Edge browser includes neither NPAPI nor ActiveX plugin support.