if you are like me and use JAVA sockets from firefox to communicate between PD and javascript this might help.

icedteaweb-plugin doesn't load in firefox 52 from firefox ,browse to about:config right click to add a new boolean name: plugin.load_flash_only value: false

now what to do to replace JAVA with something as cross platform in the way of a websocket server or "other thing" that will be sure to still be working 20 years from now?