Modern browsers these days have cut off support for NPAPI, or the Netscape Plugin API, the almsot ancient feature that allowed the likes of Flash and Java to operate inside web browsers.

The security patches, issued by Oracle, correct Java vulnerabilities that have lingered in Web browsers.

Oracle has announced that it will kill the much-maligned Java browser plugin in the next release of the Java Development Kit, slated for release next year.

Do you still have Java turned on in your web browser? If your answer is “Yes” or “I’m not sure” then it’s time to take action.

Citing security and market forces as primary factors, Oracle said it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9.

In October 2004, jig.jp developed “jig browser”, the world’s first Java full browser that makes it possible to view PC sites on mobile phones. Since then, jig.jp has developed “jig movie”, a movie ...

Come September 2016, the perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated and well on its way to being dead, decreased, and thankfully, an ex-plugin.

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.

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE ...

Rob Griffiths explains how to disable Java in many popular OS X browsers, to protect yourself from the recently-revealed Java applet security hole.