# Disable Java in your browser

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disable-java-in-your-browser/633102>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disable-java-in-your-browser/633102 "2012-08-30T02:12:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disable-java-in-your-browser/633102/21 "2012-09-01T16:41:01Z")

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**UPDATE**  
[Here we go again: Critical flaw found in just-patched Java:  
Emergency fix rushed out half-baked](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/critical_flaw_found_in_patched_java/)

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> [@MrSquishy](#):
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> I will only agree with this if you insert “client-side” in there before “web technology”.

OK, if you say so. I don’t know anything about server side stuff, but as I remember it, originally Java was mainly hyped (and, originally mainly used) as a client-side web technology, and I thought that is what it was really designed for. As such it seems (now) to have flopped. Does it have advantages over other languages for server programming?

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