Roger Fink wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
Rickles wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Michael Gordon wrote:
SM 2.15 effectively blocks all versions of JAVA. Yesterday I had
SM 2.13 installed and running JAVA applets by enabling JAVA in
the Ad-Ons Manager. Last night I upgraded to SM 2.15 and JAVA
applets would not run. ...
Side note: Internet Explorer, v.8, has no problem with the
latest version of the JAVA plugin.
It is time to jump the sinking ship. The Mozilla Fire Breathing
Dragon has run out of gas, has lost its spark, and should be laid
to rest with honors.
Thanks for the ride, Mozilla, it has been a fun ride.
On my system, at about:plugins, the plugin is listed with a bright
red message, "Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U11 is known to be
vulnerable. Use with caution," followed by a link to "More
information," which points here:
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/blocked/p182>. Details
of the block request are available here:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=829111>. Using SM
2.15, I visited a familiar site that uses a Java applet,
and that part of the page was displayed with a puzzle piece saying
I had to "click here to activate plugin." I clicked, Java started,
and it ran normally.
I closed the page (which clears its session cookies) and returned,
logged in all over again, and repeated the procedure. Once again,
I was told I had to click to activate Java. So that one click did
not enable Java globally or permanently.
Accordingly, two points:
1) The problem is not of Mozilla's making, it's a fault with
Oracle's product so it's not fair to blame Mozilla for protecting
you. 2) If you really want to run Java despite its vulnerability,
you can, on demand.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
The java plugin is enabled without conditions or warnings in my SM
v.15. My experience in activating java on time.gov is like what you
describe. The first time I clicked the box to enable it, java
presented me with an option to remember the permission, which I
selected. The second time it just presented the box, so there is a
glitch somewhere, but at least you can use it in selected instances
if you need to (and some of us do).
I'm not seeing any box, pop-up, pop-under, jigsaw-puzzle
placeholder, nuttin'. SM Add-On Mgr shows a warning that the "Java
(version) is known to be vulnerable. Use with caution." Then a
link called 'More Information' which takes you to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/blocked/p186 (in the case
of Java 1.6_38), and that tells you it's been automatically disabled
and no longer usable.
Back to my original question: how do I turn it back on? If I'm
supposed to see some dialog box, how do I force THAT on so I can
turn Java back on?
If you install the prefbar extension you can easily access (by one of
several display options) a check box to enable or disable java. That
should do it, but I would upgrade to java 7.11 first.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/?src=ss
And based on the "recognition problem" you're experiencing, I would
completely uninstall the version that you have before installing a
later one. By uninstall I mean a conventional uninstall via Seamonkey
and then go into the Windows file tree and erase all that detritus.
Sorry for the mistake - my bad: I meant conventional uninstall through
Windows (or Revo), not SeaMonkey.
I had already done the complete cleanup and re-install of the latest
version, but it's not changing anything. In the Java control panel
applet, I have ticked the box under 'Advanced - Default java for
browsers - Mozilla Family', but as soon as SM opens, the box gets
cleared again. And using the Pogo site as called out earlier in this
thread, there is no puzzle-piece drawing where I can select and
authorize the use of Java, no matter how I set the security level in the
Java Cntrl Pnl applet.
This is really getting old.
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
