Mozilla’s flagship product Firefox just released its latest version, number 26, and although it comes with an array of features, one stands out: by default it blocks all Java plugins, you have to ...

Users are beginning to report some significant issues with the final release of Firefox 1.5, centering around improper page rendering, problems with Java applets, and interface navigation. Many of the ...

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 ...

More details are emerging regarding a QuickTime/Java security flaw affecting Mac OS X discovered by Dino Dai Zovi at the CanSecWest conference. A Secunia report on ...

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 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 ...

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Java is regularly in the news, and not for reasons it would want to be. Every other day, some zero-day Java vulnerability or the other is found, a security advisory is released, and within a few days, ...

An unpatched Java vulnerability in the current version of Java has “gone mainstream,” prompting Mozilla to direct Firefox users to switch the plugin off entirely. An unpatched Java vulnerability in ...

The Firefox Web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit, Mozilla has confirmed. The change is aimed at improving security and moving away ...

I've upgraded to Firefox 0.9, and I've been trying to get all the extensions and plugins I might need to make it fully functional. For the most part it's fine, but for some reason I can't get some ...

Mozilla has made a change in Firefox that will block all of the older versions of Java that contain a critical vulnerability that’s being actively exploited. The decision to add these vulnerable ...