When I was checking my Macs for the Flashback malware last week (see “How to Detect and Protect Against Updated Flashback Malware,” 5 April 2012), I ran into something odd with Firefox. Mozilla’s plug ...

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 ...

"Mozilla is changing the way Firefox loads third party plug-ins such as Flash, Java and Silverlight," said Michael Coates, director of security assurance for Mozilla, in a blog post.

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 ...

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 ...

Mozilla decided to automatically disable outdated Java plug-ins in Firefox on Windows because of ongoing attacks targeting them Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from ...

Mozilla Firefox 26 now blocks all Java plug-ins by default due to security concerns but allows users to run such plug-ins if they want to.

Firefox's Java plug-in can be disabled in a jiffy To prevent the Java plug-in from running in Firefox, click Tools > Add-ons to open the browser's add-on manager.

Now is the time to disable Java in your web browser, or even remove it from your system if that is practical. Why? The bad guys are hard at work trying to exploit a zero day vulnerability in the ...

Java problems, solutions As alluded to in the above section, a number of users are having problems with Java content after in Firefox 1.5.

Now that Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari stopped or will soon stop supporting NPAPI web plug-ins*, Oracle thought it best to accept the Java plug-in's fate and let it go. The company has ...