I am having a major problem with the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. Every time I do a search on Yahoo.com or on a Web site that contains a search box, I get ...

Learn More. Oracle has announced it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in the next release of the Java Development Kit, JDK 9, which is expected to be released in early 2017.

According to Oracle, the Server JRE doesn’t contain the Java browser plug-in, a frequent target for Web-based exploits, the auto-update component or the installer found in the regular JRE package.

Oracle, which develops the Java plug-in software after the technology giant acquired Sun Microsystems in 2009, did not give a timeframe in which a fix would be released, though it is expected this ...