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Java and JavaScript are completely different It’s most unfortunate that these two languages have such similar names, as it makes them so easy to confuse. Although influenced by Java, JavaScript is an event-driven language used extensively on webpages, which is normally built into your browser and other apps which support it. Think of it as a type of AppleScript which runs in web pages.
In Safari, you control JavaScript in the Security section of its Preferences dialog. Unless you have good reasons to disable it, it is best enabled, as many websites stop working if your browser doesn’t handle its scripts. It has also been built into other apps as a scripting language: again, their support is built-in, and there are no separate components to install or keep updated.
Java is normally installed as an add-in to macOS, and supports the running of Java apps via web pages and as standalone apps on your Mac. Safari’s controls over Java are quite separate, and part of the Websites section of its Preferences. By default, Safari and other browsers will not run Java automatically, but at least ask you if you want to enable it for that site, when it’s installed.
Apple and Oracle Java Apple used, a long time ago, to bundle Java with OS X, and still provides a separate installer if you need to support Java 6. The only recent apps which require you to install Apple’s old Java support are most of those in Adobe Creative Studio 6 and earlier, which will not run without it. Apple’s Java 6 runtime is available. If you want to run any modern Java software, including that provided over the internet, then you should install the current version from.
Apple’s Java 6 and Oracle’s Java 9 can peacefully coexist if you use apps requiring both versions, and Apple has now confirmed that its existing Java 6 installer is good for High Sierra too. Which version is installed? If you have a modern Oracle version of Java, you can tell from the command line by typing java -version in Terminal. Currently, this should produce a response such as java version '9.0.1' Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9.0.1+11) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9.0.1+11, mixed mode) If you merely get an error, indicating that the command was not found, this implies that you don’t have any version of Java installed. Modern implementations of Java also install their own pane in System Preferences, to control Java’s settings.
If you don’t have that pane, you don’t have a proper installation of Java; if you do, it will tell you which version is installed, and should also help you bring it up to date as needed. Should you have Java installed? There is nothing inherently insecure or dangerous about having Java installed on your Mac. However, if you don’t use it, it is another thing to clutter up your Mac. If you do have it installed, you should also ensure that your browsers are properly configured so that access to it is restricted, and you must keep it up to date.
Java continues to develop, and vulnerabilities are found in current and older versions which need to be fixed in updates. If you were to have an old, vulnerable version of Java 8 installed, and left it open for any website to use, you could end up running Java malware, which would be seriously bad news. Although not likely, you should not expose your Mac to that risk. If you are going to use it, ensure that you keep it up to date. (Updated 31 October 2017 confirming High Sierra compatibility for Apple Java 6 runtime.).
Most users will find themselves on Java 8, not 9. On a Mac with Java 8 update 151 installed, this version is confirmed as up-to-date by the Java control panel (as of 20 Oct). Going to Java.com and clicking on download, the Java website offers me Java 8 update 151. However, it is easy enough to find the Java 9 pages and download Java 9.0.1 (which supports Mac OS 10.10 and later).
However, I’m not sure there is any reason to move to Java 9, unless an app requires it. This page: informs me that Java 8 will continue to be updated through September 2018. Surprisingly this page also informs me that updates to Java 9 will end in March 2018, upon release of the next version, Java 18.3 (not a typo; apparently they are changing how versions are numbered). This page includes the statement “Oracle does not plan to migrate desktops from Java 8 to Java 9 through the auto update feature. ” This explains why I am not offered Java 9 through the Java control panel. It goes on to explain that Oracle is moving away from stand alone installs of Java, and is encouraging developers to include Java (JRE) with their apps.
Liked by. 2. I have, in other articles here, announced the release of Java 9 and the 9.0.1 update. Sometimes Oracle’s pronouncements are mystifying – we will have to see what they actually do. I’ve been running Java 9 here since its release, and nothing has complained about it. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for each Java app to include its own JRE (although some do already, I know), nor I think does Oracle explain how that will work with browsers, for example, or in the maintenance of all those copies of JRE in different apps. Sometimes I wonder if Oracle would rather not have anything to do with Java any more!
Safari is a bit faster making it incredibley fast (not just super fast) and it finally added the last remaing feature that I missed from my old IE days “save image as” then choose directory. (Before, downloaded images always defaulted to the desktop which was a pain) Now, I dont know of any feature in Safari that I find myself wanting. It works with my bank, it works with my wife’s hotmail account, and I have yet to find a site that it is incompatible with except for a few that utilize Microsoft’s bastardized Java.
(Why is it that Microsoft’s technologies are the only ones that introduce incompatibilities?). (Now, I dont know of any feature in Safari that I find myself wanting.) I know! Number of them: an ability to block window resizing by web page scripts (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), a notification icon about blocked pop-ups (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), separators in bookmarks menu (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), an option to easily block flash pop-ups (exists in Mozilla with Adblock, doesn’t in Safari), smaller font in bookmarks menu, an ability to create blank bookmark (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari). I have not downloaded the new release of Safari yet, but I will soon. Has any one noticed if the new release of Safari has addresses the printing issue? Safari seems to compress the text vertically on many pages, and makes a 2 page document print as 5 pages. The beta versions of Safari did not have this issue, but it started hapening from version 1.0 on.
Any ideas on correcting this? I save a great number of web pages as PDF, and as of late have had to resort to Mozilla for printing & PDF creation. “By Rayiner Hashem (IP: —.res.gatech.edu) – Posted on 2004-02-03 02:06:29 Hmm. That’s one feature that annoys me about Konqueror. Who needs a back button on the context menu where there is one: – In the menu – In the toolbar – With a hotkey for the keyboard” Minimal movement, no having to put the cursor all the way to the top of the screen to click a button when in two clicks, right click left click, I can go back.
Super fast, super simple. As soon as someone showed me how to do that I rarely, very rarely, use the buttons.
Its just second nature now, right click left click on back. I cannot use Safari for that single reason. Its unbearable to me. No big loss tho, lots of great browsers on OS X. “I can’t wait to see if this version still freezes on me on phpBB sites” It freezes on you on phpBB sites? I use lots of those with Safari and haven’t had a problem.
There are many Mac centered sites that use phpBB, seems like they would use something else if Safari couldn’t handle it. Is it just one specific site or all of them?
“Support editing controls like you see in dhtml based wysiwyg html editors? Mozilla and Netscape do, and of course IE for windows does, but Safari support has been lacking because it is based on khtml. Just wondering if they added this functionality on their ownhere is a link to check if you happen to be on safari right now” I’ve never seen that before, so I’m not sure exactly how it’s supposed to work, but it looks and acts the same in the new Safari, OmniWeb beta 5, and the latest Mozilla. Maybe they fized it.