To view our interactive tools properly, you need to be using a Java-enabled browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v.

For the few occasions where a person does need Java, such as accessing a business payroll site, they advise using a separate browser that runs Java.

When people talk about Java being insecure, they're talking about the browser plug-in. Java apps themselves aren't inherently insecure, it's the browser plug-in that causes problems.

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 With browser plug-ins going the way of the ...

The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...