How to use JAVA plugin for chrome (use Google Chrome version 42 and higher for Income Tax eFiling)

JAVA for Chrome Requires NPAPI plugins. NPAPI plugins don't work on Chrome version 42 and higher. Plugins allow extra features to be added to browsers. For example, you can watch certain types of videos or play a game that’s on a webpage.


Plugins that use NPAPI, including Silverlight, Java, and Unity, won’t work

How to enable PPAPI plugins

• Open Chrome.
• In the address bar at the top, type chrome://plugins and press Enter.
• Click Details.
• Scroll down to "Adobe Flash Player."Under "Type: PPAPI," click Enable.
• How to temporarily enable NPAPI pluginsIf you must use a NPAPI plugin, there’s a temporary workaround that will work until Chrome version 45 is released later in 2015:

This is important

• Open Chrome.
• In the address bar at the top of the screen, type chrome://flags/#enable-npapiIn the window that opens, 
• click the link that says Enable under the Enable NPAPI flag.
• In the bottom left corner of the page, click the Relaunch Now button.
• After the release of Chrome version 45, you’ll need to use an alternate web browser to load content that requires a NPAPI plugin.

To make browsing with Chrome safer, faster, and more stable, we’re ending support for NPAPI plugins with Chrome version 42.
In the past, many plugins were developed using an older system called NPAPI. Today fewer sites are using NPAPI plugins and they can sometimes cause security risks on websites.

Which plugins are supported
Plugins that use a newer, more secure system called Pepper API (PPAPI) will continue to work, including those that come with Chrome, like Adobe Flash and PDF Viewer. If Flash or PDF doesn’t automatically load, make sure that you have the PPAPI plugin version enabled in Chrome.