edit: here I should replace firefox and mozilla with oracle
That's quite a stretch.
I have a user who uses frequently one specific website and for no apparent reason Firefox decides to tell him it's now dangerous to use with fearful and technological terms (vulnerabilities, plug-in, risk, etc.).
If Mozilla decides its users are dumb and should not be trusted to allow Java applet to be run then they should not warn them with techno-cryptic messages they know their users can't understand (because if Mozilla thought they could then Mozilla would know users could make the difference between a good and a bad applet and that warning wouldn't be needed).
A shorter and less scarier note would have been a better message for everyone.
The warnings are 8-14 and 5-8 words respectively, and state the case concisely. The word "risk" appears nowhere, and is a common English word anyway, and "vulnerable" and its derivatives are also common English words.
How would you rephrase the warning in fewer than 8 words that would have helped your stepfather understand the problem and how to deal with it?
Congratulations, you've just lambasted Mozilla for a Java message. Java pops up that same message for applets in all browsers. Go talk to Oracle, it has absolutely nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox.
That's quite a stretch.
I have a user who uses frequently one specific website and for no apparent reason Firefox decides to tell him it's now dangerous to use with fearful and technological terms (vulnerabilities, plug-in, risk, etc.).
If Mozilla decides its users are dumb and should not be trusted to allow Java applet to be run then they should not warn them with techno-cryptic messages they know their users can't understand (because if Mozilla thought they could then Mozilla would know users could make the difference between a good and a bad applet and that warning wouldn't be needed).
A shorter and less scarier note would have been a better message for everyone.