Last week’s notice by researchers at Security Explorations of an unpatched hole in the Java runtime environment may have left you wondering whether to disable Java until Oracle releases a patch.

Mozilla this week began blocking outdated versions of a Java plug-in in Firefox for some Mac users after calling the threat posed by the Flashback malware “evident and imminent.” The move came two ...

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 add ...

Mozilla has announced that all Firefox plug-ins, barring the most recent version of Flash, will soon require explicit user authorization before being allowed to run ...

While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles. Java, of course, is the programming ...

Mozilla must have seen the news this week: Security companies are recommending you disable Java, or just uninstall it. The organization is recommending the same to its Firefox users: At this time ...