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Old 28th January 2016
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Default Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise

From http://arstechnica.com/information-t...or-its-demise/

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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 purchase of Sun Microsystems, has announced that the plugin will be deprecated in the next release of Java, version 9, which is currently available as an early access beta. A future release will remove it entirely.
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Flash and Java, dead? But now how will I get viruses for my computer that serves as a digital petri dish?
No worries -- have you seen what you can do with JavaScript these days? And then, there's the whole "internet of things"!
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Old 30th January 2016
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Good thing about Javascript in browsers is diversification of implementations and open sourcesness of some of them in contrast to Flash which has one major implementation and this implementation is closed source.
I know that this diversity is small. You have:
1. Firefox
2. Chrome/Chromium and a lot of Webkit/Blink clones
3. Closed source products from Microsoft: Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

It is not too much, but it is still more diversified than just one implementation of Flash Player.
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