Disabling the Java plug-in for Internet Explorer is significantly more complicated than with other browsers. There are multiple ways for a web page to invoke a Java applet, and multiple ways to ...

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 Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

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 ...

Firefox, for example, has a blocked plugins list that includes Java plugin 7 update earlier than 44 and Java Plugin 6 updates earlier than 45. Google Chrome introduced a similar blocklist in 2011.

You also learn about the Java Plug-in Document Object Model (DOM), applet state persistence, and cookies. In addition, you study applets, run from Firefox, that reinforce those topics.

Come September 2016, the perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated and well on its way to being dead, decreased, and thankfully, an ex-plugin.

Microsoft’s Edge browser doesn’t support plug-ins either. With Internet Explorer and Safari the only browsers set to still accept traditional NPAPI plug-ins after 2016, Oracle is pretty much ...

Oracle is laying to rest the annoying Java plug-in that has been the bane of most browser users’ lives for majority of the history of the internet as we know it. It won’t be missed. Oracle ...

To view our interactive tools properly, you need to be using a Java-enabled browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 3 or above, or Netscape v. 3 or above), preferably on a Windows 95 and higher ...

Old, buggy versions of the Java plugin have long been used as an exploit vector, with Microsoft's own security report fingering Java in 84.6 to 98.5 percent of detected exploit kits (bundles of ...