Firefox browser maker Mozilla turned heads this week by brazenly blocking plug-ins for its browser in a move that it says will improve both performance and security. It will now be up to the user to ...

Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move. The feature, ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

News that Oracle Corp. plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 prompted a rousing chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the Internet last week. But the news came as no surprise. A ...

Mozilla late Friday blocked the Microsoft-made software that had put Firefox users at risk from attack. The two-part Microsoft component — an add-on dubbed “.NET Framework Assistant” and a plug-in ...