I am having a major problem with the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. Every time I do a search on Yahoo.com or on a Web site that contains a search box, I get ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of ...

Good news from the world of online security: Oracle, developer of the Java plugin that has been making browsers insecure since 1995, has finally announced that it’s sending it six feet under.

Oracle has decided that keeping its Java plug-in for browsers is completely pointless. The outfit has said that it will remove its browser plug-in from future Java releases, basically because most ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might see this file being run inside of the Task Manager. The Java Plug-in software is a component of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The JRE allows applets written in the Java programming ...

SAN FRANCISCO (10/18/2007) - With an eye toward both consumer and enterprise needs, Sun Microsystems is reworking the plug-in architecture of Java in an upcoming update to Java Platform Standard ...

According to Oracle, the Server JRE doesn’t contain the Java browser plug-in, a frequent target for Web-based exploits, the auto-update component or the installer found in the regular JRE package.

To the informed enthusiasts who have defended and advocated on the behalf of the world's most popular cross-platform programming language, however, the death of the Java browser plug-in has been ...