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Mozilla is blocking Java as well, keeping hundreds of millions of Firefox users safe.

Mozilla Security Blog: Protecting Users Against Java Vulnerability

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/11/protecting-user...

It appears that Mozilla has changed Java applets to "Click to Play". On the other hand, Apple has completely blacklisted the current version of Java. This may affect corporate users where they need access to Java applets for internal intranet applications. In FF, they would still be able to use the applet if needed. I think the Mozilla method strikes the better balance between protecting the end users and allowing them to use the browser as intended.

Those same corporate apps nearly always require IE.

And, realistically, those corporate apps probably work perfectly fine with Apple's depreciated JVM. Oracle's JVM has been in the wild for about 5 months.

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