Java plugin support discontinued
According to some techinical articles released by Apple, Java update 10 for OSX 10.5 no longer supports the java plugin. As a result, java will no longer work with Firefox or Chrome unless users update to OSX 10.6. Although there may be valid technical reasons for doing this, it is really inexcusable that this was not CLEARLY communicated to users in plain and simple language before the update was uploaded. Here is part of the explanation released on one of Apple's mailing lists (but not the general public):
"Firefox and Chrome users are currently unsupported on PPC since the current versions of those browsers are = Intel-only. Anyone with an Intel Mac should upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to continue to receive any updates at all.
Plugin2 in it's current state was barely usable when run under J2SE 5.0 anyway, so in the end, anyone who was relying on applets on Leopard was probably already using Safari anyway."
I think it's pretty arrogant that Apple assumes no one using Leopard was using FF or Chrome to browse sites supporting java and to not even bother informing them that support was going to be discontinued.
Just saying....
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)