wraggster
October 23rd, 2013, 22:30
The Firefox web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102213-firefox-java-275087.html?hpg1=bn), Mozilla has confirmed. This even affects up-to-date versions of Java, which you can see on the block list (https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/). The change is aimed at improving security and moving away from a dependence on proprietary plug-ins, but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=914690) and less-technical end-users. "
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/23/0044227/firefoxs-blocked-by-default-java-isnt-going-down-well
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/23/0044227/firefoxs-blocked-by-default-java-isnt-going-down-well