Java Plug-In and Safari...

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Java Plug-In and Safari...

There is a website that I need to access for my job, from home. (It is a time off/vacation request, check personal messages from work kind of thing) but I cannot get it to open on Safari (or mozilla, for that matter) but it will open on my husbands desktop PC. I get the following error: The Java plug-in is not installed. The required version: 1.6.0_07 Then it provides a link to download and install manually. However, the link opens up a MS-DOS .exe file, which is useless for me. I have downloaded all of the Java updates, so I'm not understanding why I still can't get it to function. And because my job is PC based, they don't care about the mac user at home.

We are getting rid of my husbands PC (It's a decade old) so it's not like I can just use his. Suggestions?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Feb 23, 2010 9:57 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 23, 2010 11:02 AM in response to Katielou1118

HI,

From the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Preferences and select the Security tab.

Where you see: Web content

Make sure the following are checked.

Enable plug-ins

Enable Java

Enable JavaScript

Relaunch Safari.

If you are running 10.5.3 as your profile indicates, you need to udpate your system software to 10.5.8.

Click the Apple Menu  / Software Updates

That way your Safari and Mac OS X will be updated. After the updates are finished, repair disk permissions.

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

Carolyn 🙂

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Answer 2

Allan Jones

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Feb 23, 2010 11:02 AM in response to Katielou1118

I suffered through an employee site that treated me in a similar manner. Part of the problem turned out that the site relied heavily on pop-ups, and I had Safari set to block them.

Eventually, I used Safari for everything else except that site. As Safari's pop-up blocker is "all or none," I used Camino for the employee site. Camino allows you to selectively approve pop-ups from certain sites and block the rest--a nice feature.

Also, some site have to use third-party cookies. Camino also lets you set which third-party cookies you accept.

Worth a try: http://caminobrowser.org/

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Katielou1118 Author

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Feb 25, 2010 8:41 AM in response to Allan Jones

Done all of the above and it still does not work. Using a Java tester it seems I am running Java 1.5.0_22 from Apple - to use the site I need Java 1.6.0_07. So what is the latest version for Mac?

Any other suggestions?

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Klaus1

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Feb 25, 2010 9:17 AM in response to Katielou1118

This is the update you need:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL70

Should have shown up when you ran Software Update.

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Katielou1118 Author

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Feb 26, 2010 1:12 PM in response to Klaus1

Will try when I get home and let you all know!

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Answer 6

May 14, 2010 4:56 PM in response to Katielou1118

If you're like me and have a slightly older Mac, then you're OUT OF LUCK:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1856

Apple has decided to screw Leopard users on systems like my MacBookPro3,1 with an ANCIENT Java v1.5.x with no hope of ever getting to v1.6.

You can run Software Updates all that you like, but you'll never get more than this lousy outdated v1.5.0_22

COME ON, APPLE, are you KIDDING ME?!
My !@#$^& MacBookPro3,1 is STILL UNDER APPLECARE EVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY NO 32-bit JAVA on MacBookPro3,1?!?!?!?!?!

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