At the bottom of the page click 'Relunch Now'.

Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows: click 'Enable'.

Open a new tab and enter chrome://flags/#enable-npapi.

To enable the NPAPI plugins, follow these Steps: As Chrome is no longer availabe from any official sources, the alternative is to look for the last Chromium 44 release in the continuous builds archive. 157 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as stated in this blog post: /2015/08/stable-channel-update_20.html.

The last stable release of Chrome 44 would be. The reason for asking this here, is to help users or web developers, who may be looking for the same thing and to possibly find a download source similar to the Firefox archive. On the StackExchange sites, I could not find this particular question or a download link to Chrome 44. Other links only recommend to switch browsers.

In researching this, the top hit on Google for 'Chrome 45 Java' does not answer the issue at all: 'How to enable Java in Google Chrome 45'. From my experience with Firefox, I am able to do this without jumping through lots of hoops, as Firefox makes all old versions available for download! I do not understand the policy of Google in this regard. Also for web-development I'm used to be able to do some testing with previous versions.

So I'm looking for a quick workaround to temporarily run the old version of Chrome side-by-side with the current version. Where can I download the last stable release of Chrome or Chromium (for OS X / Windows / Linux) which still had Java / NPAPI support?Įdit: My reason for the question is that a web-app, which requires Flash and Java, suddenly stopped working. This means plugins for Java, Silverlight, Facebook Video and other similar NPAPI based plugins will no longer run in Chrome. The Google Chrome browser version 45 completely dropped support for NPAPI in September 2015.

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