Wow! that was close, almost updated my Firefox this morning. Thanks Alkis.
Now, I just tried the java app in question (ends in .jnlp) on my mac which
has FF v. 52 and get the message "What should Firefox do with this file?"
and I click on "Java Web Start" and it starts! Now this seems to contradict
what you are saying, or perhaps this website has ... OK don't really
understand some of these technologies. My questions are:
1. since it seems to work on my Mac on FF 52, does that mean that this
website HAS updated to 'web api' so I don't have to worry about the java
apps on that site working w/FF?
2. If I do have to concern myself with this for the phet site, how can I
set FF to stay at the latest version of 51.x?
David
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David yes solutions for this exist for all users, but unfortunately
> Firefox 52+ no longer supports Java applets at all, so there's no point
> in even translating from a Greek wiki page to English there. :)
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Problems-with-add-ons-
> plugins-or/Why-do-Java-Silverlight-Adobe-Acrobat-and-
> other-plugins-no/ta-p/31069
>
> Time for all java applets to switch to html 5!
> (or to a webstarter technology, independent of the browser)
>
> Firefox ESR will support Java applets for another year, but it's not
> available in Ubuntu, while it is available in Debian.
> Although I don't think it's worth it if it's just for 1 more year...
>
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