Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is
a cross-platform plugin architecture. SharePoint 2013 makes use of this API for
a plugin for Chrome and Firefox that provides functionality such as allowing
documents to be opened in the local application (such as editing Word documents
in Word).
Google has slowly been phasing out support for NPAPI plugins
in Chrome,
but as is so often the case, you don’t notice these things until they are
switched off.
The current version of Chrome (42) disables NPAPI plugins by
default and in the future they will not be supported at all.
For now you can enable NPAPI by going to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
in Chrome and clicking enable. After restarting the browser, the plugin should
work again but this is not a long term solution as this option will eventually
be removed. It would appear that unless Microsoft can provide a plugin that
doesn’t depend on NPAPI, Chrome won’t be able to provide the best experience
for SharePoint 2013.
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