Oracle has recently published a new post in the series “Moving to a Plugin-Free Web,” advising developers to find replacement solutions if they still have Java applets running in production. Firefox is going to stop supporting them soon.
Firefox, the last browser to support NPAPI plug-ins is supposed to ditch them in early March when version 52 is planned to be released. Except for Flash, the general release of Firefox 32-bit will no longer support plug-ins, including Java applets. Support for Flash will be phased out at some point later. Mozilla builds a separate edition for enterprises called Extended Support Release (ESR) which comes with updates and fixes for 1 year, but these are not targeted to the general public.
