On Thu 23 Feb 2012 01:33:41pm EDT, /WLS/ said in mozilla.support.seamonkey:
> 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-shou >>>> ld-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. " > This is the clock page that uses Java: <http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java> When Java is turned off it lets you know. The other one listed above is only a time snapshot. _T o m_ -- ________________________________________________________ "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -- Louis-Hector Berlioz ________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
