In the wake of popular Internet browsers Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari ceasing NPAPI web plug-in support, Oracle has finally accepted that its troublesome Java plug-in is dead and gone, announcing ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

It's official: the plug-in is on its way out. Oracle -- under pressure from moves by Google and other browser makers to remove plug-in support -- now plans to eliminate the Java browser plug-in. "With ...

Java is a security headache, not just for users and Oracle, its provider, but also for other software companies that have to deal with it, as well. Microsoft has taken steps to address this problem by ...

Firefox, Chome, and Safari let you. But short of a complex, CERT-documented process, there's no reliable way to disable Java in IE No doubt you’ve heard the news: Oracle released Java 7, Update 11 on ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Use Java Plug-in with the Firefox Web browser Six years have passed since I wrote “Plug into Java with Java Plug-in” for JavaWorld. My earlier article defined Java Plug-in, showed how to install ...

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...