Proper noun
NPAPI
(communication, mobile) Initialism of Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (cross-platform plugin architecture used by some Web browsers.)
As of April 2014, Google Chrome does not allow the use of any NPAPI plugins. citation Mozilla Firefox will also ban NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016. Source: Internet
You can bundle an NPAPI plugin with your extension, allowing you to call into native binary code from JavaScript. Source: Internet
The term, "Plug-in", however, strictly refers to NPAPI -based web content renderers. Source: Internet
Firefox has dropped support for NPAPI plugins, except for just Flash. Source: Internet
In answer to these questions we have composed the following list of common NPAPI use cases and web platform alternatives. Source: Internet
Linux users have access to both NPAPI and PPAPI versions of Flash Player. Source: Internet