Mozilla is treating unpatched Java plugins as malware, blocking them from loading with Firefox to prevent malicious websites from exploiting a critical vulnerability.

I have java installed on my Linux box and working for remote sites (I can while away hours on games.yahoo.com), but it won't work on a local webpage. The same webpage, moved to a remote computer, ...

For the last year or so, Java seems to have spawned a never-ending flow of security bugs, partly because of the software environment's invisibility to end users and partly because of the system access ...