Google Chrome 42 disables NPAPI support by default, and Project Spartan lacks ActiveX support entirely. Both of these changes prevent the use of Java in either browser.

Chrome Version 42; The answer to life, the universe and everything? Not for much longer as Google have deprecated NPAPI, NPAPI stands for Netscape Plug-in API. A feature of Chrome to allow ...

NPAPI plug-ins were blocked since January 2014, but some of the popular ones were whitelisted, including Java, Unity, Silverlight, Facebook Video, and a couple of others.

Choose Plugins in the left pane, scroll to the entry for the Java plug-in, and click its Disable button. Disable Firefox's Java plug-in via the browser's Add-on Manager.

Java The Java browser plug-in lets Chrome run applets, small programs embedded in a Web page. Java applets enable dynamic Web pages and interactive web programs.

Plug-ins can open vulnerabilities in even relatively secure browsers like Chrome. Even coders, like Jeff Atwood, can fall victim. Here's how to reign in plug-ins like Java, or disable them ...