Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-07 Thread Eric Martz
Thanks to those who reported their findings. From those results I noticed that (for reasons I don't know) my brand new Snow Leopard was running Safari 5.0.5, while those of you reporting that Jmol works in Snow Leopard Safari had Safari 5.1.7. Before I got around to installing Safari 5.1.7 by

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-05 Thread Angel Herráez
Those of you who are Mac users and are finding out the problems, if you are keen to it, I invite you to summarise the situation at http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Troubleshooting/Java_Problems @Henry, the presentation mode in Chrome sounds interesting. Is it very different to Firefox in full

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-04 Thread Oliver Stueker
Hi, the security issues with Java 1.7 also apply to the 1.6 series [0,1]. Fixes of three critical vulnerabilities in 1.7.0_7 and 1.6.0_35 at least stop publicly available exploits, but sill contain several other holes [2]. Still afaik Java 1.7.x is (a bit) more secure than 1.6.x [0]. Oliver

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-04 Thread Rzepa Henry
On 4 Sep 2012, at 19:18, Oliver Stueker revilo2...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi, the security issues with Java 1.7 also apply to the 1.6 series [0,1]. Fixes of three critical vulnerabilities in 1.7.0_7 and 1.6.0_35 at least stop publicly available exploits, but sill contain several

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-04 Thread Otis Rothenberger
When you access the Java download site using Chrome, you get the following message. So I guess the answer to your question is your latter answer - Wait for Google. Otis The Message: Chrome does not support Java 7. Java 7 runs only on 64-bit browsers and Chrome is a 32-bit browser. If you

[Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-01 Thread Eric Martz
I erased (re-formatted) the (new, 0.7 terabyte) internal disk in my main workstation (2007 Intel MacBook Pro) and did a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6 from a DVD shipped by Apple in the past week. That went smoothly. Migration Assistant copied nearly all of my apps, and their licensed

Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol inoperable in Safari w/ Java 1.6.0_33

2012-09-01 Thread Philip Bays
There have been security issues with the Oracle release of Java 1.7. General advice has been not to use it. On my own page I am using Jmol 12.0.43 which I understand is old. I access it from a MacBook Pro running OS 10.7.4 and Safari 6.0 or Firefox 15.0. Applae Java release 1.6.0_33. Have