[Molvis-list] FirstGlance blocked in Snow Leopard

[Eric Martz]

FirstGlance in Jmol, Proteopedia, and all Jmol (java applet based) 
web pages have been blocked as of today by Apple on OS X 10.6 Snow 
Leopard due to vulnerabilities. This situation will be corrected 
pending a java upgrade not yet released.

When you go to a Jmol-using web page in any web browser on Snow 
Leopard, you see a small gray "Inactive plug-in" message. When you 
click that, it runs Apple Software Update, which tells you that you 
are already up to date -- there is nothing new (yet).

Here is confirmation
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/01/31/apple-blocks-java-on-macs-due-to-vulnerabilities/1880783/

There is a very technical method for re-enabling java, but apparently 
you need to do that once a day as Apple will undo it periodically.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4761112?tstart=0

What is blocked are all java applets in Snow Leopard, where the 
current java is 1.6.0_37.
I can still run the Jmol application in Snow Leopard.

I don't know about Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion -- I'd like 
reports from people using those.

Also I can still run java applets/Jmol in Windows.

Eric



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