The Java plugin has been with us since 1995 and was originally developed for the browser Netscape, more than a decade before the days of Google Chrome and 9 years before Mozilla Firefox.

Choose Plugins in the left pane, scroll to the entry for the Java plug-in, and click its Disable button. Disable Firefox's Java plug-in via the browser's Add-on Manager.

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.

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Google Chrome 42 disables NPAPI support by default, and Project Spartan lacks ActiveX support entirely. Both of these changes prevent the use of Java in either browser.

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web.

Java The Java browser plug-in lets Chrome run applets, small programs embedded in a Web page. Java applets enable dynamic Web pages and interactive web programs.

Turning off Java can be done in a few simple steps, depending on which browsers you use. Mac owners who use Google Chrome can go to Chrome://plugins and verify that the Java plugin is disabled.

With the demise of Adobe Flash on the way, Oracle has announced via a very short blog post that come JDK 9 later this year, the Java browser plugin will be deprecated.

NPAPI plug-ins were blocked since January 2014, but some of the popular ones were whitelisted, including Java, Unity, Silverlight, Facebook Video, and a couple of others.