Last updated: January 30, 2019
Update: Please see our Java support in Google Chrome article for the latest information on how to view Java content in Chrome. The workaround described below is no longer supported by Chrome. macOS users please see Java support in Safari 12.
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Looking to enable Java in Google Chrome 42 and higher? Did you start seeing This plug-in is not supported after upgrading Chrome? You, and everyone else who uses Chrome to view Java content in their web browser.
When Google released Chrome 42, it disabled some historically problematic browser plug-ins by default. Plug-ins, such as Java from Oracle and Silverlight from Microsoft, use an API from the 1990s called Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI). The issue you have encountered is that Google Chrome 42 (as well as later versions) disabled NPAPI by default, and with it, the Java plug-in (among other plug-ins). With the updated browser, when you visit web pages with Java content, you see a gray area with a puzzle piece display in its place instead. Mouse-over the gray area, and the message This plug-in is not supported accompanies it.
Fortunately, a quick and easy work-around exists to restore NPAPI to Google Chrome by default. To make your Java content available, follow these steps.
1. Upgrade to Google Chrome 42 (or the latest version up to Chrome 44). NPAPI is enabled by default in Chrome 41 and earlier. Please note that this option is no longer present in Google Chrome 45 or later. SeeHow to use Java in Google Chrome 45+.
2. In a Google Chrome window, type or copy/paste this line into the address bar: chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
Click the Enable link under Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows.
3. For your change to take effect, click the Relaunch Now button at the base of the page.
Once Google Chrome relaunches, the Java content will display once again in the browser window. The plug-ins will still be subject to the previous blocking restrictions you may have encountered with Chrome in the past. You may need to give the plug-ins permission to run even with NPAPI enabled.
To disable NPAPI again if needed, return to the chrome://flags/#enable-npapi page, and click the Disable link under Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows.
Monobrowser Chrome acolytes also have the option of installing Chrome extensions like IE Tab. IE Tab emulates functionality within Chrome, such as Java and Silverlight (and other technologies that use NPAPI) that is found in other web browsers. The extension also allows you to set up Auto URLs that automatically open specified URLs using IE Tab. By doing so, you may automatically load frequently visited pages that included Java content to open in IE Tab.
But look smart. This work-around will only be an option for you to use until September 2015. At that point, the ability to enable and disable NPAPI is scheduled to be removed from Google Chrome for good.
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Does Chrome support Java? Using Java in Chrome is a little bit tricky at this moment.
NPAPI was required to enable Java applets, but since 24th of November 2014, NPAPI was disabled by default.
Since April 2015 NPAPI plugins were unpublished from Chrome Web Store.
Between this period you could enable it in settings:
But currently it’s not possible anymore, so you cannot just download Java for Chrome and make it running.
So as I mentioned nowadays you should use little tricks…
But first of all, you need to install Java on your PC.
Install Java For Chrome on Windows
How to use Java with Chrome steps:
Install IE Tab chrome extension (it emulates Internet Explorer under your Chrome browser and allows to run Java and Silverlight).
You’ll find its icon “e” in the right top corner. Click it and follow installation steps (run ietabhelper.exe).
After that, a new tab will be opened and you’ll be allowed to use new IE Tab search line.
Verify Java version here https://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Press a “Verify Java version” button.
You should confirm that you want to run Java detection application.
and see that Java is running.
Not native Java support, but it’s better than nothing.
Install Java For Chrome on MacOs and Linux
Tab IT plugin doesn’t support MacOs and Linux, that’s why we gonna use Test IE plugin.
The problem is you have to pay, but they give you a free trial to test.
So when you activate this Chrome extension you will be redirected to a homepage:
Press a FREE TRIAL in the top right corner and register.
Then you’ll be redirected to a list of available OS and browsers.
I recommend taking FireFox under 52 version because FF after 52 partially supports Java.
Google Chrome Java Plugin Mac Os X
After that FF browser will be opened on your tab.
Go to Java verification page to be sure that it’s running.
Google Chrome For Mac Computer
Press a button and browser will ask you to allow Java:
Google Chrome Mac Os
Then it will ask you: “do you really want to run Java detection application?”. Press “Run”.
And at the end, it will say that your current Java version is 8 Update 151.
That means, Java is running and you can use whatever you want.
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