Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...

News that Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 came as no surprise, as a growing number of browser vendors have either stopped supporting the plug-in or announced plans to do so ...

Browser vendors are moving away from plug-ins. Now Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology ...

If you reinstall the Java plug-in, the problem will vanish quicker than you can say “double decaf latte with a twist of ozone.” Here is the Internet address you need to download the needed ...

The Java browser plugin, which allows certain applications to run in your browser, is being retired later this year. It was a common security vulnerability.

Note that Apple does have a Java plug-in reference in its CoreDeploy.bundle package, but in the latest update to Java 6 this plug-in is used to redirect users to download Java 7, so linking to it ...

Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Mozilla can ...