Java Mission Control is a powerful tool for those who need to profile and troubleshoot the JDK. But the Java Mission Control plugin currently available through the Eclipse Marketplace is the old ...

Tuesday's update for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion goes further and removes the Apple-built Java plug-in from all web browsers, forcing users to download the latest version curated directly by Oracle.

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 ...

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 ...

Mozilla decided to automatically disable outdated Java plug-ins in Firefox on Windows because of ongoing attacks targeting them Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from ...

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 ...

Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets, which depend on a plug-in, to the plug-in-free Java Web Start technology. In a blog post this week, Oracle’s Dalibor Topic noted this ...

The browser plugin in particular has become a common vector for malware attacks, and Apple removed the Java Web plugin from recent versions of OS X last year. Those needing the plugin must install ...