Oracle to Kill Java Plugin

It’s the end of an era. Oracle has announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on the Java browser plugin. The company confirmed Wednesday that it expects to deprecate the plugin in JDK 9, slated for release in September, and JRE, in a future Java SE release. Dalibor Topic, a member of Oracle’s...

Mozilla to Provide WebRTC-based Free Firefox To Firefox Voice and Video Calling feature

Mozilla is planning to provide a new feature that will allow free audio and video calls between its Firefox web browser, thereby ending the need of any third-party client service or plugin. Mozilla will soon release a new experimental version of Firefox Nightly, which will include an open source...