[Molvis-list] FirstGlance blocked in Snow Leopard

[Campbell, Malcolm]

I am using Mac 10.7.5 and Safari 6.0.2. Jmol is blocked. I was working in December. 

Malcolm 



On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Eric Martz 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/
> 
> 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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