On 31/01/2013 13:48, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
My motives to install Java 6 were:
1) Because the only two PCs in the family who already had Java installed
both have Java 6, I hoped to get a comparable setup.
OK, nothing to say to that.
2) Ages ago I've got annoyed by the (auto-)update of a new Java version
every week or so. I have the faint hope that the current build of Java 6
(Update 38) will last a while as mainstream support will end next month.
See:
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml
You can't possibly be as annoyed by that as I am.
So I switched it off....
3) Recently Java7 received bad press concerning security. See:
http://www.20min.ch/digital/news/story/15141662
This is only a concern if your browser uses a Java plugin.
Guess what - mine is (mostly) switched off - just like Javascript is
switched off (if you use Firefox, "noscript" is really your friend).
4) Java 6 is available since 2006, Java 7 since 2011. From my experience
old(er)/mature systems tend to be more stable than new(er) ones. ;-)
I can't find a bug in it (other than the sound problem, which exists in
java 6 too).
My advice really is to install Java 7, but you do what you want (of
course!).
Wolfgang
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