Dear Jmol users,
You should be aware that Firefox
has joined the trend to abandon Java
applets and the latest release can no longer run Jmol in pages. Of course,
JSmol-html5 is perfectly functional. Google Chrome and Microsoft
Edge are
another 2 major browser that cannot run Jmol-Java.
Firefox 52 (released this week) does not support the NPAPI format of
plug-íns and hence cannot run Java applets, Shockwave Player animations
(DCR files, Macromedia Director), external PDF viewers inside the browser,
etc. Running Flash Player animations/videos has been kept as an exception.
Please be aware of this for older Jmol pages.
If you are the page author / developer
, it is most urgent that you convert
your pages to use the JSmol.min.js library and enable
HTML5 modality by
default.
http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Jmol_JavaScript_Object#Converting_pages_from_Jmol_to_JSmol
If you are a user / visitor
, be sure which browser you pick. MS Internet
Explorer (versions 9 to 11) still supports Jmol-Java (and is rather slow with
JSmol-html5); Safari in the MacOSX is also running Java.
Other browsers that retain Java compatibility are Mozilla SeaMonkey (not
clear for how long) and Pale Moon (indefinitely by decision of the developers,
at least while Oracle continues to deliver the Java Plugin)
More specific details and alternatives at
http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_and_enabling_Java
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