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Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: "The browser will now only run Flash"

"Applets were not one of Sun's better ideas for Java..."

Say what? Applets were the sole point of Java. The somewhat bizarre(*) idea of running Java on the server side came later and only as a belated attempt to maintain interest in what was by then a language dying out because Sun were apparently unable to write a secure JVM to run the applets in.

(* Yes, bizarre, because if you don't trust the code running on your server then you have bigger problems than your choice of programming language.)

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