On 02/23/2012 01:20 PM, Not@home wrote: > > > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> 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> >> > Now I'm puzzled. I went to the site you provided and got a static > display. I then went to a site I use (washingtonpost.com, > entertainment, crosswords, daily crossword, and it displayed a Java logo > while loading, and advised that if it doesn't work, you should update to > the current version of Java. If this site is using JavaScript, would it > display the Java logo?
No it wouldn't. It uses Java. "You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet. " -- Thunderbird Beta | openSUSE 11.4 Linux Get openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/121/en Humans aren't a color of skin, a religion, a sex, a sexual orientation, or a flag. We are human beings and that is how we need to see and treat each other. - Justin Sane _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
