Google Chrome 35 Drops Support For NPAPI Architecture Based Third Party Plugins

A few days ago, new stable iteration of Google Chrome 35 and Chromium 35 was released that included many new features such as migration from GTK +2 to AURA, App-Launcher and new notifications-center. With release of Chrome/Chromium 35, the browser bids farewell to the third party plugins that are based on NPAPI architecture like Silverlight (via Pipelight), Java, VLC, etc.

Most of the security related problems, hangs & crashes are mainly due to these third party plugins which is why Google have decided to drop its support from latest version onwards. This update has been rolled out for all platforms. Google Chrome still supports the Chrome PDF Viewer and the Flash Player Plugin, but you can no longer use Java plugin, VLC plugin which allowed users to play media from the browser and the great Pipelight with which user can access content in MS Silverlight from the Chrome Browser, which means you can't install Netflix on Chrome.

These third party plugins in Chrome/Chromium have been permanently removed and there is no possible workaround to reactivate it. The only solution to this problem comes from an second best browser in the world - Mozilla Firefox, which still supports third party NPAPI architecture plugins.

Are you going to switch to other web browsers because of this ? Do share your opinion on this move by Google.
Source : <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2014/05/update-on-npapi-deprecation.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chromium Blog: Update on NPAPI Deprecation</a>