Unity Technologies Inc. has announced that as of March 2016 it will no longer support the Unity Web Player plugin, which currently allows developers to release games for web browsers using the ...

If the Unity Web Player is installed but not working in Chrome or Firefox on your Windows PC, then please read this article for the resolutions.

The plug-in has a smaller download size than Flash and, at the time of writing, has already been installed on more than 15 million computers.

Unity games can also be deployed on the Web, but this function currently uses a browser plug-in, the Unity Web Player. The early access will remove the need for the plug-in.

Unity is set to end support for Web Player as browser vendors move away from plug-ins. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are all ending support for plug-ins in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

Namely, Unity’s WebGL deployment support will be free of charge for both free and Pro users. You’ll be able to build a game in Unity’s engine and push it to the web without paying them a dime.

The latest version of Chrome doesn't have support for a specific plugin (NPAPI, specifically) that the Unity Web Player relies on, and Unity says that Firefox's support for plugins is going the ...