To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

A recently released update to Chrome has brought a plan to the forefront that has been brewing behind the scenes since 2013: the deprecation of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface ...

The days of bloated, bug ridden, error prone web browser plugins are finally and truly numbered. Just last month, Adobe has practically started Flash's retirement ...

The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

With a new attack that targets a security vulnerability in Oracle's Java spreading through the hacker underground and no available fix in sight, it may be time for users to deal with the plugin's bug ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

Oracle announced that it is putting a life sentence on the Java browser plugin, which was found to often display security problems and require updates that are more frequent than normal. The decision ...