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.

An update to IE 8 through IE 11 next week will introduce a new warning when users try to run an outmoded Java ActiveX control.

According to Vulnerability Note VU#636312: "Disabling the Java plug-in for Internet Explorer is significantly more complicated than with other browsers.

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 ...

To disable Java plugin on Internet Explorer you can use the Add-ons manager to disable Java (tm) Plug-in 2 SSV Helper and Sun Microsystems Deployment Toolkit. But this does not actually suffice.

Java plug-ins run applets in a security “sandbox” that’s supposed to prevent applets from doing anything harmful on a user’s system.

The Java Plug-in also provides a great benefit to developers deploying applications through Web Start, which we’ll discuss later. Installation of the Java Plug-in through an Internet Explorer ...

Microsoft is treating its removal of plug-in support from Internet Explorer as a long-overdue bug fix. Larry Seltzer questions Microsoft's real motives for pulling the plugs.

Oracle is laying to rest the Java plug-in that has been the bane of most browser users’ lives for majority of the history of the web.

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate ...

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 ...