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Re: Apple turning off Java applets as default?


On Apr 13, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Emmanuel Puybaret wrote:

Hi all,

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-flashback-malware-removal-in-two-easy-steps-12222726/ says “This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.”

All my thanks to Apple for trying to kill Applets and Java Web Start under Mac OS X! :-((
Next step is removing "Enable Java" check box from Safari preferences, right?
I really start to doubt whether my next computer will still have an Apple on it or not.

Speaking entirely for myself here, keep in mind that Java 6 will be end-of-life'd later this year, and that Apple isn't shipping Java 7. Given the severity of the problem that motivated these changes it's not a completely unreasonable action for Apple to take. And while it's certainly painful for us as developers to have to explain this to our users in the short term, I think there is a better long-term solution on the way.

The Oracle Java 7 runtime will not have this behavior. We are working as quickly as possible to get the Java 7 runtime finished, so that users will have the most secure version of Java available on their Macs.

-- Scott K.

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Scott Kovatch
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Santa Clara/Pleasanton, CA

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