Question

Browsers have historically been a soft target for hackers. Recently Google Chrome discontinued supporting Java in an attempt to enhance security. What is your take on such a move and do you think other systems will follow Google? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes I think this is a correct move and other system Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari should also stop using java plugin because they have security risks on websites.

Chrome no longer supports NPAPI (technology required for Java applets) and The Java plug-in for web browsers relies on the cross platform plugin architecture NPAPI . In the past, many plugins were developed using NPAPI. Today fewer sites are using NPAPI plugins and they can sometimes cause security risks on websites.

Nowadays already cyber crimes such as phishing , hacking have increased so much that people dont rely in brower only. So if chrome has taken this step of removing Java plugins for security issues then I would recommend other browser to do the same.