Now that Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari stopped or will soon stop supporting NPAPI web plug-ins*, Oracle thought it best to accept the Java plug-in's fate and let it go. The company has ...

Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge have all either killed support for plugins, or announced that they’re going to do so in the near future, leaving no room to support the Java plugin.

Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle.

The much-maligned Java browser plugin, source of so many security flaws over the years, is to be killed off by Oracle. It will not be mourned. Oracle, which acquired Java as part of its 2010 ...