On 2013-03-17, walt wrote: > On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes >> howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. > > I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are > a zillion open security bugs for java and many are actively being > exploited in the wild recently. > > If you must use java in Firefox (as I do) then make sure that your > version of Firefox is the latest one (19-something) because it will > ask your permission before running any java applets. Firefox will > allow you to override the warnings for selected websites so it won't > become irritating at sites you trust. > > IIUC there are exploitable bugs in java7 that don't exist in java6, > so I'm sticking to java6 for now, though 6 isn't perfect either.
Or use NoScript or some other extension that lets you block embedded content by default, like some people have been doing for years now. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
