Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks. Killing Java means disabling user functionality like facebook video chat, as well as various java-based corporate apps. The move would stop Firefox from working with a number of very popular websites. It took researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo two minutes to get an encrypted authentication cookie used to access a PayPal account in less than two minutes. The researchers settled on a Java applet as their means to bypass SOP, leading Firefox developers to discuss blocking framework in a future version of the browser.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/09/firefox-java-update-ready-to-stop-beast.html