{"id":53953,"date":"2013-10-23T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=53953"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:04:32","slug":"firefox-to-mark-all-java-versions-as-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-to-mark-all-java-versions-as-unsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox to mark all Java versions as unsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/java.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Java<\/strong><\/a>, still required for many sites and web apps, will be marked as unsafe in <strong>Firefox<\/strong> starting with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 24<\/a><\/strong>. This decision is a result of the many security flaws that have been found in Java over the years, and Oracle&#8217;s &#8216;poor response times&#8217; to these threats.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla appear to have come to the conclusion that enough is enough with Java, and that it can never be considered &#8216;safe&#8217; for users. Firefox is pinning its future on increased HTML5 use on websites. While for big companies, this isn&#8217;t really an issue, small businesses that use Java in their websites may find it harder to make the switch to newer technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google Chrome<\/strong><\/a> is also dropping support for some web plugins, so by the end of 2014 it will not support things like Microsoft Silverlight, Unity and even Google Earth. However, Mozilla&#8217;s approach seems more radical, and could result in users moving to Chrome or other browsers which are currently more permissive with plugins and security.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Firefox:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-withmozillas-firefox-os\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands on with Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox OS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-24-released-brings-webrtc-support-and-quickshare\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 24 released, brings WebRTC support and &#8220;quickshare&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-for-windows-8-modern-ui-delayed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox for Windows 8 Modern UI delayed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-23-arrives-with-new-logo-share-button\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 23 arrives with new logo, share button<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular plugin Java, still required for many sites and web apps, will be marked as unsafe in Firefox starting with Firefox 24. This decision is a result of the many security flaws that have been found in Java over the years, and Oracle&#8217;s &#8216;poor response times&#8217; to these threats. Mozilla appear to have come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-to-mark-all-java-versions-as-unsafe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox to mark all Java versions as unsafe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-53953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331930,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53953\/revisions\/331930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53953"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=53953"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=53953"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=53953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}