Not@home wrote: > My security program (F-Secure) issues a newsletter and in the latest > edition they recommend that we delete Java if we don't need it, because > is seems to be most vulnerable to every new exploitation. see > <http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2012/01/14/why-you-should-get-rid-of- java-now/?ecid=2942&nlcid=2942> > > Is Java necessary to effective use of Seamonkey? I see it pop up once > or twice a day, most amusingly when I use F-Secure health check to see > if my programs are up to snuff. I do have another program that scans my > pc and tells me when any program is not up to date, so I do have the > most up to date Java.
My experience is that there are very few Java applets left on the normal web. Most developers seem to have moved on to Flash or HTML5 presentation -- with of course the over-abundance of JavaScript we see every day. (Java and JavaScript are two entirely different things.) You can see a safe Java applet here. If your Java is enabled, the time display will tick-tock away; otherwise it's a static display: <http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5> So the answer is: unless you know of a specific web site(s) that actually do use Java applets, you can safely remove it - or at least disable it, possibly via the use of the PrefBar extension (also makes it easy to manage many other things, including en/disable JavaScript). <http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org> -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
