Mozilla is treating unpatched Java plugins as malware, blocking them from loading with Firefox to prevent malicious websites from exploiting a critical vulnerability.

Mozilla has released a major new version of Firefox, which includes fixes for more than a dozen security vulnerabilities as well as an important change that makes all Java plugins click-to-play be ...

Mozilla is taking an interesting approach toward improving stability and security in future versions of the Firefox web browser. Starting soon, websites won’t be ...

On Friday Oct. 9, Mozilla confirmed that by the end of 2016 the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) will no longer feature plugin support in its browser. The concentrated efforts ...

Mozilla developers have launched a new online tool that tells Firefox users whether popular add-on components such as Java or QuickTime are up to date. The new Plugin Check page tests for more than 15 ...

Now that Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari stopped or will soon stop supporting NPAPI web plug-ins*, Oracle thought it best to accept the Java plug-in's fate and let it go. The company has announced ...

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After more than two years on the back burner, Firefox has finally introduced click-to-play for all plug-ins, including Flash, Java, and Silverlight. Plug-ins are the single biggest cause of browser ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

As a Firefox user, I am eternally grateful that the browser invalidates add-ons with known security problems. An example of this is shown below, the red circle with the red line through it indicates ...

Horrible browser plugins used to offer extended multimedia features for website, often at the cost of a much worse overall experience -- thankfully, they're going the way of the dodo. Chrome recently ...

Firefox (Windows/Linux): Mozilla has released a beta version of Firefox Lorentz, an update to Firefox they announced earlier this year. Lorentz brings a Chrome-like process isolation to Firefox, ...