[Molvis-list] FirstGlance blocked in Snow Leopard

[Joan Slonczewski]

Our IT made us all turn Java off. So no Jmol can be seen.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Eric Martz <emartz at microbio.umass.edu>wrote:

> 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/<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<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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