You also learn about the Java Plug-in Document Object Model (DOM), applet state persistence, and cookies. In addition, you study applets, run from Firefox, that reinforce those topics.

Mozilla's Shumway project promises to eliminate Flash plug-ins, replace them with pure HTML5/JavaScript-based solution ...

TORONTO Computer security experts are warning about a new vulnerability involving the ubiquitous Java plug-in, which allows programs to be run inside a web browser. Oracle, the creator of Java ...

Apple’s patches automatically deactivated the Java plug-ins in browsers, leaving it up to Mac users to turn them back on. Until a few months ago, Apple had handled the release of all Java updates.

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 ...

It comes as part of the A part of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). If interested, you may learn how to fix a missing JRE using instructions in our other guide. What does Java Plug-in SSV Helper do?

Java also has a web plug-in that allows you to run these apps in your browser. Java is not, however, the same as JavaScript. In fact, they don't have a ton of similarities besides their names.

Most of our detection algorithm are implemented in JavaScript plugin system, and it runs seamlessly on all supported platforms. A plugin method is called when a specific checkpoint is triggered in the ...

The latest versions of Java for Windows are Java 6 Update 31 and Java 7 Update 3. Mozilla is also considering adding a blocklist entry for the Java plug-in on OS X.