Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin
Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin
[Distributions] Posted Dec 16, 2011 15:09 UTC (Fri) by corbet
Ubuntu has sent out an announcement that it will be pushing a security update that disables the Sun JDK browser plugin on all machines. It seems that there are several security issues with this plugin, but, due to a change in licensing by Oracle, it is no longer possible to create packages with the fixes. The best solution appears to be to switch to OpenJDK.