What happened to running Java applets inside your web browser, anyway?

@vaporeon_ as i understand it, web browser plugins (diffurent concept from extensions) were such a reliable source of exploits that they got phased out

@aescling > web browser plugins (diffurent concept from extensions)

What was difference?
Was Adobe Flash also a plugin? They still had that until very recently

@vaporeon_ @aescling would you be interested in the stackexchange discussion i found when googling the question