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Christ, as someone who wrote some Java software long, long ago: Does Oracle not care how damaging this stuff is to the already battered Java "brand"?

When Firefox brings up a "Java is a potentially malicious plugin" dialog by default, you should be trying to turn that ship around.

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Perhaps this is the excuse to generate more critical updates, increasing the number of accidental Ask toolbar installs.

Oracle doesn't believe in "free".

Java in the browser has been battered for a while. It's been supplanted by Flash for the most part which will be replaced by Javascript in the browser. Oracle is expecting Java VM's to disappear from the browser altogether and is glad to wring out as much cash as possible in the meantime.

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