The Web provides an increasingly rich environment which should eliminate the need for plugins, and we are eager to continue improving the Web platform for any use cases where plugins may still be required. The Mozilla team wants to work closely with affected publishers to make this transition as painless as possible. Oracle recommends that sites currently using Java applets consider switching to plugin-free solutions such as Java Web Start. More information from Oracle about Java transition plans can be found in a post from the Oracle team.
Mozilla continues to work with the Oracle Java Platform Group to ensure a smooth transition for those web sites that use Java. Site maintainers should prepare for plugins to stop working in all versions of Firefox by the end of 2016. In the rare cases where a site needs to extend Web technologies, the recommended solution is to develop the additional features as a Firefox add-on. The Web platform is powerful and can usually do everything that a plugin can do. Websites and publishers which currently use plugins such as Silverlight or Java should accelerate their transition to Web technologies. As this technology continues to evolve, Unity has announced an updated roadmap for its Web Player technology. Mozilla and Adobe will continue to collaborate to bring improvements to the Flash experience on Firefox, including on stability and performance, features and security architecture.Īs part of our plugin strategy, Mozilla and Unity are proud to jointly announce a close collaboration and an aligned roadmap that will enable Unity-based content to be experienced directly in the browser without plugins.
Moreover, since new Firefox platforms do not have to support an existing ecosystem of users and plugins, new platforms such as 64-bit Firefox for Windows will launch without plugin support.īecause Adobe Flash is still a common part of the Web experience for most users, we will continue to support Flash within Firefox as an exception to the general plugin policy. This decision mirrors actions by other modern browsers, such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, which have already removed support for legacy plugins.
Firefox began this process several years ago with manual plugin activation, allowing users to activate plugins only when they were necessary. Mozilla intends to remove support for most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016. Plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security incidents for Web users. As browsers and the Web have grown, NPAPI has shown its age. Features such as clipboard access which used to require plugins are now available via native Web APIs. Mozilla continues to prioritize features that will make it possible for sites to switch away from plugins. Streaming video, advanced graphics, and gaming features have all become native Web APIs in the past few years. You never get the same performance, security, look and feel and usability from a Java based app that you can get with a native app for Mac.Mozilla has been steadily improving the Web platform to support features that were once only available via NPAPI plugins. Even if you do, it is always a good idea to look for alternatives that do not need Java. Thanks to the rapidly increasing usage of HTML5 and native APIs by developers, users rarely come across Java applets or desktop apps that need Oracle’s runtime. Java, just like Flash, has been known to be a highly insecure runtime and over time, tons of zero-day exploits have been discovered in it.
This is not to say that you do not need Oracle’s runtime installed as well for certain apps but apparently, it has nothing to do with this pop up message.Įven though this is a quick solution, it is not recommended that you install Java, if you do not need it. It would be easier to figure out the solution if Apple’s pop up message redirected users to their own website to downlaod the correct package, rather than taking users to Oracle’s website which does not fix the issue.
Once you’re done, you will stop seeing the damn annoying pop up every hour on your Mac.
You have to head over to Apple’s website and go to the Java downloads section and download and install the latest Java for OS X version. But, the issue is that even if you have the latest version of Java runtime installed from the Oracle website, this issue does not go away. This happens when you installed an app that requires Java to execute. In you are using OS X 10.10 Yosemite or OS X 10.11 El Capitan, you would have come face to face with the aboslutly annoying pop up that appears out of no where and asks you to install the Java Runtime Environment.