Comment by graemep
15 hours ago
> Java applets were removed from the browsers due to issues being found regularly
Java applets were killed off my MS's attempt at "embrace, extent, extinguish" by bundling an incompatible version of Java with IE, and Sun's legal response to this.
They never worked nice and always felt slow, unreliable and janky at the time. It’s easy to blame MS but no one was sad to see the back of them.
I was fine with the few I used, and Java works much better on the hardware we now have. A lot better than a lot of cross platform things we have now.
No, Microsoft has nothing to do with it. Browsers are controlled by Google and Mozilla and they decided to block Java plugin.