Tl dr: You're trying to cure an infection with a bandage. That said, you're already at the point where you're installing an insecure browser for these things and you're fast approaching the date where the language vendor itself will no longer patch vulnerabilities in the (vulnerability-prone) code used to access them. I get that companies often use devices long after the vendors abandon them. Oracle's end of support for applets is March 2019. Now here's the part that should really scare you: Oracle themselves announced their plugin would be deprecated in Java 9 back in January 2016, and have been advising vendors to move to plugin-free solutions like Java Web Start longer than that: That likely means IE 11 is the last supported browser that will run Java applets. I'm unclear on the status of Safari 11 now that Safari 12 has been released, but in the past Apple has tended to stop patching older versions when a new major version of Safari is released. With the release of Firefox ESR 60.2, Firefox ESR 52 is now End-of-Life and contains known security defects that Mozilla will not be patching. IE 11, as you obviously know, still supports ActiveX plugins. Firefox ESR 52 and Safari 11 were the last supported options for NPAPI plugins. After completing the steps above, you should be able to download a JNLP file from Firefox to run your Oracle Forms application. Exit out of Firefox completely and restart Firefox. Chrome dropped NPAPI support in 2015 and there was never a PPAPI plugin for Java. Under the Action column, select the down arrow in the JNLP File entry and choose Java Web Start Launcher. I sympathize, but you need to know (and raise alarms) that your organization is in a problematic situation.īrowser vendors have been on a clear trajectory to remove plugin support since at least 2015.
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