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I believe Mr. Steve Jobs comments maybe of interest to you on this. He was a brillant man and his thoughts on the future are still of importance. Hope this helps a little in answering some of your concerns:

http://9to5mac.com/2010/10/22/steve-jobs-responds-to-apples-java-discontinuation -warning/

Steve Jobs' comments aren't relevant to the present situation. The current version of Java, as of today 13 Jan, is not safe and you should disable it in your browser. (I have it disabled anyway and I haven't fallen over any sites not working as a result, though there must be some.)

An update correcting the problem is promised for Tuesday 15th January:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025171/oracle-says-java-update-coming-tuesday.ht ml

The newly discovered zero-day flaw in Java 7 is so serious that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall it, and Apple has disabled the Java 7 plugin on Macs through its OS X anti-malware system, in order to protect users from a potentially serious security issue.

You should disable Java (if not already done) until either the US Department of Homeland Security, or Oracle, declare it safe and Apple restore the facility. Javascript should not be disabled (it has nothing to do with Java).

However, if you need the Jave 6 JRE and plug-in, MadMAC0 has posted at

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4449038?answerId=20107182022#20107182022&ac_cid=tw123456#20107182

Apple has also posted (Oct 22/12) the approved solution for restoring the Java 6 plug-in:

Java for OS X 2012-006: How to re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 applet plug-in and Web Start functionality.

I stand corrected...thanks for the information.

-SO-

In your opinion what is the best way to disable Java 7 and not have any adverse reactions in other applications????

You can turn Java off in Safari Preferences>Security and in FireFox Tools>Add-ons>Plug-ins. This is sufficient; if you have any stand-alone programs running on Java these are not a problem.

Thank You Roger. I'll give your directions a try and see how they work. May I ask if you have any thought on HTML 5 and it's capabilities to be substitued in use over Java 7. Thank you in Advance

I'm afraid that I don't know anything about HTML 5. However Java is hardly used in web pages nowadays - I have it disabled in my browsers and the only site I've come across so far which has been affected is my own, where I put a Java applet in (around twelve years ago!) as a technical exercise.

About HTML5 and web standards (from the Apple Developer Centre):

http://www.apple.com/html5/

You can click on 'Developers: learn how to do it yourself.

10 Easy lessons:

http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.com/featured-articles/learn-html5-10-must-re ad-lessons/

Thanks for the links - I've bookmarked them. Hopefully one day I will read them....

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Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

I'm afraid that I don't know anything about HTML 5. However Java is hardly used in web pages nowadays - I have it disabled in my browsers and the only site I've come across so far which has been affected is my own, where I put a Java applet in (around twelve years ago!) as a technical exercise.

Wekipedia uses Java.