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 ...

As promised, Mozilla has created a page that checks for outdated plug-ins used by Firefox and helps users get the latest ones available.

In Firefox 26, all plug-ins except for Flash will generate a prompt, asking the user to block the plug-in or allow it to run. Furthermore, out-of-date versions of Silverlight, Java, and Adobe ...

Mozilla developers are working on a new Firefox feature that will block the automated display of plug-in-based content like Flash videos, Java applets or PDF files, and will protect users from ...

Mozilla kicks off scheme Tuesday; Firefox 3.6 will check for old Apple, Microsoft plug-ins, too.

With an eye toward both consumer and enterprise needs, Sun Microsystems is reworking the plug-in architecture of Java in an upcoming update to Java Platform Standard Edition (SE) 6, company ...

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 ...

In here I noticed that Firefox was alerting me to the fact that the Real Player Browser plug-in was being disabled automatically due to known security and stability issues.

Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move.

Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle.