Safari 5.1- Java no longer works

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Safari 5.1- Java no longer works

I have read a lot about this issue but what do I do to correct it? I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and after upgrading to safari 5.1 java will not work. I test it out by going to www.pogo.com and am unable to play a game. In fact it crashes.

Yes, firefox works but I don't want to keep switching back and forth between browsers. I have tried all of the suggestions on here minus going to an older version of Safari. I feel like I am back using a PC w/ Windows again bc these are the identical issues I would deal with on a daily basis.

I downloaded Lion but am not installing it until all bugs are fixed. I don't want to run into any more issues such as this. Any solutions???? All help is greatly appreciated!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 9:49 AM

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Aug 26, 2011 11:45 AM in response to skeeterpod

In fact it crashes.

Maybe not just Java that's the issue if Safari is crashing.

If Safari has just crashed, press the Report button on the CrashReporter dialog box to view the crash information.

Copy/paste the entire contents of the Crash Reporter window into your reply. If the crash report dialog does not appear or the crash is hard to reproduce, crash logs can be retrieved from the ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter> folder.

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Aug 26, 2011 11:50 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Safari did not crash, the box from the site that uses Java closed. I use pogo.com to test bc it uses Java. If the game doesn't load, I know there is an issue. It's 100% an issue with Java. Firefox works fine and everything loads. Safari won't load Java.

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Aug 26, 2011 11:56 AM in response to skeeterpod

Ok... try this skeeter...

Go to your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Security tab.

Make sure Java is enabled.

And open Java Preferences (Applications/Utilities)

Select the Network tab.

Click: Delete Files

Restart your Mac. See if that helps.

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Aug 26, 2011 12:10 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Already beat you to it haha I saw that on another thread on here and did it before I posted. I tried to cover all of my bases before posting. Thank you for the suggestion.

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Aug 26, 2011 12:24 PM in response to skeeterpod

Might be www.pogo.com that's the problem. Results from an HTML validator test:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pogo.com%2F&charset=%28detect +automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Looks like they are having problems with Java on their site.

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Aug 26, 2011 12:55 PM in response to skeeterpod

If it's any consolation to you, the site doesn't work for me either in Safari, but it does work in Camino and would probably work in Firefox, though I haven't tested that.

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Aug 26, 2011 1:02 PM in response to Linc Davis

Yes, works fine in Firefox and use to work fine on Safari until I upgraded to 5.1. I tried another page someone mentioned who was having the same issues and it did not work in Safari either.

If I click to play Spades (using as an example), the box pops up and counts down. However it never opens but rather shows the "Java" logo and will not load.

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Linc Davis

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Aug 26, 2011 1:13 PM in response to skeeterpod

From the menu bar, select Safari > Report bugs to Apple...

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Aug 26, 2011 1:19 PM in response to Linc Davis

I literally just did that! I explained the issue and clicked "submit". This seems to be a problem many are experiencing. While searching the web I found pages of different forums where people are all having issues with Safari 5.1. I'm not going to mess around and go back to an earlier version. I just hope they come out with an update to fix all of the issues. I'll use Firefox in the mean time. Thanks 🙂

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Aug 26, 2011 3:34 PM in response to skeeterpod

It's killing me too. I run my own site (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/) and I'm having the same issues. I can't see my own menus. On my iMac I'm stuck and not sure what to do except wait. Now here is the weird item. On my MacBook Pro I also upgraded to Lion and have 5.1, but I can see the menus perfectly within Safari.

On my iMac I installed Chrome just for the heck of it, no menus in there either. So I'm really stuck and its odd not being able to use my own site. I tried resetting Safari. I checked to make sure Java was enabled. I've emptied my cache. I've rebooted. I didn't have any extensions, but turned them off anyway, still not working on my iMac, but it is working on my Pro.

Anyone else have suggestions?

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Aug 26, 2011 4:30 PM in response to sean0826

@sean0826 -- this is why you don't use Java menus. Even javascript menus are a bad idea; you need to have a secondary menu system ANYTIME you have a menu system that requires a plugin or scripting to be active. NOT EVERYONE browses with that stuff on.

The only thing you can do for now is FTP to your site and add in static menus (like we did in the "old days" at the bottom of the page; or rip out the Java Menus and install static or CSS versions.

BTW where are you rmenus supposed to be. I have opera, safari, ff, and a few others. they all look the same. So if that's true, it's the plugin that's the problem, not safari.

In Opera Pogo.com works. java loads, the game is there. It does have some drawing issues but not surprised.

In Safair Pogo works fine. Just played a game of chess.

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sean0826

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Aug 27, 2011 3:32 AM in response to Code_Wizard

Wasn't looking for web development tips, but thank you...

No need to FTP into the site and add static menus, they have been there since 1999. They did use to be "old days" but now they are also new days. Search engines use static links to follow so sites are putting them back in regularly to ensure higher search engine results.

I just wish I could solve this on my iMac. If it were just a plugin issue it would affect all my systems, but it doesn't and that's what bothers me. It works on my Mac Book and yesterday my daughter got an Air for her birthday, works there as well. All have Lion and the same version of Safari. So it's something specific to this computer...

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Aug 28, 2011 8:57 AM in response to skeeterpod

Has anyone figured this out? Works perfectly on Firefox! If I view the source, Java is the issue. I have searched all over the internet and this seems to be a very common issue. Apple should release a fix to this asap. I'm not sure what "Code Wizard" is talking about bc I don't mess around with technical settings. Most people are not "code wizards" who have the ability to make the above changes he mentioned.

Please Apple, fix the Java issue!

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Aug 28, 2011 9:06 AM in response to skeeterpod

I'm posting my latest error message. Am I crazy or is this not a Java issue with Safari 5.1?

Unable to Connect to Server

Explanation:
In order to play, the Java applet must open a network connection to our servers. The applet was unable to open this connection.

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Sep 14, 2011 11:25 AM in response to skeeterpod

I have just found out from the Scifinder site at

http://libinfo.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/scifinder-web-java-plug-in-available-for -safari-5-1/

that Apple fixed this with a download, dated 20 July 2011;

Here is the link: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421

After quitting all browsers and installing the dmg, Safari 5.1 still wouldn't work with it until I re-started my computer - perhaps this just flushed a cache and I could perhaps have had the same result just from flushing caches.

If Apple would only look at these threads and inform us!

But I suppose by now most of you have found this anyway.

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