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Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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This occurs when I go into Safari Preferences and go to Privacy to check on cookies. To open “PluginProcess†you need a Java runtime. Would you like to install one now? It is asking to download through Software Update. I am running 10.7.3 without Java at the moment. I am not sure why it is only showing in the Privacy part of Safari Preferences when Apple deliberately left Java out of Lion. Thanks Mark
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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Joined: Aug 2009
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Maybe you just have not encountered another instance where you needed Java.
Apple is now leaving the development of Java to Oracle, which is fine from Mac users' perspective. I don't think it has anything to do with problems of Java and OS 10.7.x. It is a convenience of OS X that you can download it through Software Update and not have to search it out on some Oracle site.
What is your reluctance or concern?
On a Mac since 1984. Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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I was surprised that something as simple as checking on cookies would need Java. I have heard that there was security issues with Java.
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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There can be security issues with many different components of any computer operating system. Java is not inherently a "security issue". Many observers have said that the biggest security risk for any computer is the human operator.
On a Mac since 1984. Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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Checking cookies doesn't require Java. I'm wondering if you have some sort of third-party extension, such as a privacy extension or a cookie blocking add-on, which does.
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Re: Java Runtime and Safari Preferences
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No extensions added. In Safari Preferences I have block cookies from third parties and advertisers checked. (Since the post I have downloaded and installed Java and it has stopped asking do I want Java.) I also thought it was strange that it would require Java.
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