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Why is Safari blocking the latest Java plugin?

Today, I fired up Safari to access my work server but the required Java applet wouldn't run. Safari displayed "Blocked Plugin" and clicking it said my Java was out of date and/or a security risk. I upgraded to the most recent Java (7.10, I believe) and restarted everything, but Safari still blocks the plugin. Firefox does not and confirms it's installed correctly and works.


There's no higher version of Java or my Safari (6.0.2). What is going on and how can I resolve it?


Thanks!


Jeremy

Posted on Jan 10, 2013 9:04 PM

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Jan 11, 2013 1:23 AM in response to bennich_dk

We have had customers and internal emplyoees where it worked just the same as with your new MacBook Pro. If you restart it, I think it will "show itself" which leads me to think that Apple has pushed this due to the zero day exploit in Java found yesterday.


Would be great to get a confirmation of this from Apple though, not that its ever going to happen 🙂

Jan 11, 2013 2:37 AM in response to jeremyschultz

I too am having this problem, and have tried every conceivable workaround. Firefox is not an option, as it seems that the Juniper SSL-VPN product won't fire up the ncproxyd or pass the "host check" with Firefox 18 and Java7 -- so whilst other Java sites work, the VPN I need to use won't come up.


I've tried removing everything, reboot, checking permissions -- even ran Instruments in the Developer tool to figure out how Safari makes the determination if something is out of date or not.


There is a major Java security hole out at the moment, in the latest version, so the only thing I can think of is that perhaps Apple fired a "kill everything" command that is telling all Safari versions that no version of Java is safe.

Why is Safari blocking the latest Java plugin?

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