Close your browsers before you use the control panels add/remove programs to uninstall Java that's listed there.. It might say Oracle Java. It will remove it from the browsers and the main program from your folders. Unfortunetly java uninstall does leave some junk but generally its no harm. Don't worry about javaScript. That's a different thing. If you want.. there is a tiny program called JavaRa that will additionally remove some junk... Here is a link that might be useful: http://singularlabs.com/software/javara/javara-download/

If your "Shockwave Flash" plugin checks out okay but the videos still won't play you might check your other add-ons. Are you using the Flashblock add-on? It's possible for an Adblock Plus filter to cause problems so you could disable it long enough to find out. A site I sometimes listen to seems to be deliberately trying to not play nicely with Adblock Plus. The videos load and load and load and never play, except maybe for the very first one. To get around it, I have to center-click ABP to disable, click my bookmark to load the site, watch it load and at the instance the player appears center-click ABP to re-enable it. Then it'll play all day with no ads. :) I once had an Easylist filter clash with TV-Land. I kept getting "non-responsive" script messages. Pretty much locked Firefox up until it was good and ready to let me close the tab. Finally I noticed that it was only like that when I was using Easylist, Fanboy worked fine. I used ABP's "Report an issue on this page..." feature to report that. They fixed it somehow. I tried to figure out specifically which filter was causing it but I couldn't find it. Sorry, I suppose I'm getting off topic.

Look in your uninstall programs for Oracle Java or used to be named Sun Java. Or look in your program files off the start menu for them too & should see an uninstaller there. Just uninstall java and forget about it unless you need it .... Here is a link that might be useful: Manual download page to newest version of Java This post was edited by mikie on Tue, Aug 27, 13 at 9:51

no definitely not Moni!In fact it is extremely outdated, it's really important to keep updated java, adobe reader and other adobe product, including flash on every browser,which is mentioned in the second link for Corrines blog. You are definitely at risk. Shirley do you have the latest version of Firefox if not update it, 18 is current. Some sites do use java, most are moving to newer safer technology. YouTube shouldn't be a problem. Firefox yesterday disabled java in their browser which is why you are not seeing it now. It sounds like you are ok. According to recent info supposedly there will be a patch Tuesday, we shall see.