The experience sucks beyond compare, always has, and blaming the user isn't going to solve that. You have to download a separate plugin with stupid ads in it.

The experience sucks beyond compare, always has, and blaming the user isn't going to solve that. You have to download a separate plugin with stupid ads in it. If your version is wrong, it won't work or it won't work right. A number of things won't work unless you use the one from Oracle. If you are lucky, a little tray reminder obtrusively harasses you every few weeks to update to a new version. If you don't, you have to worry about unpatched vulnerabilities. Now you come across a page with an applet in it. This applet stuck inside a little rectangle on the page takes a few seconds to kick off at all. Most of the time it looks terrible once it's up. It isn't at all uncommon that it crashes. Many people have experienced this bringing down the browser or even hanging the computer, which is especially awesome when you didn't even ask for the thing to run. This isn't a matter of the users being stupid and not knowing what's good. This isn't good. It has never been good.