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Firefox community roiled by Java crackdown

2013-10-23 13:28:31| InfoWorld: Top News

The Firefox Web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit, Mozilla has confirmed. 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 and less-technical end-users.

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