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 ...

Mozilla is disabling older versions of the Java Deployment Toolkit plugin for Firefox users, in a bid to block attacks against a newly-discovered Java security hole that attackers have been exploiting ...

Mozilla has announced that all Firefox plug-ins, barring the most recent version of Flash, will soon require explicit user authorization before being allowed to run ...

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 ...

Mozilla is taking an interesting approach toward improving stability and security in future versions of the Firefox web browser. Starting soon, websites won’t be able to automatically load most ...

Java is regularly in the news, and not for reasons it would want to be. Every other day, some zero-day Java vulnerability or the other is found, a security advisory is released, and within a few days, ...

Users are beginning to report some significant issues with the final release of Firefox 1.5, centering around improper page rendering, problems with Java applets, and interface navigation. Many of the ...

I've upgraded to Firefox 0.9, and I've been trying to get all the extensions and plugins I might need to make it fully functional. For the most part it's fine, but for some reason I can't get some ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Jiangjie Qin explains the motivation and use ...

For the second time in a month, Apple has effectively blacklisted the current version of the Java Web plugin on OS X. The block comes just days after it was discovered that the latest version of the ...