On the 8th of May, 2018, Jagex announced that the FunOrb servers will close down on the 7th of August, 2018.
Having played the games of FunOrb during its early years, it is sad that the website had to close its doors for good. However, with Mozilla Firefox version 52 terminating support for the Java browser plug-in, leaving the troublesome Internet Explorer as the only web browser to support the Java plug-in, it will make sense for Jagex to make a painful decision.
Also, the discontinuation of the Java plug-in by good web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome was one of the reasons that made me decide to quit Runescape on the 27th of March, 2017. Given that plug-ins have become vulnerabilities as well, I would also get rid of the Java plug-in, which I already did, if it means getting rid of software vulnerabilities.
FunOrb logo © Jagex.
Update: FunOrb did go offline on the 7th of August, 2018. The link to the FunOrb website now redirects to the Jagex website.
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