From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1CF198005 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89971E06BF; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm23-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm23-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.236.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 216B5E0663 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.196] by nm23.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Mar 2013 19:22:49 -0000 Received: from [68.142.198.200] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Mar 2013 19:22:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Mar 2013 19:22:49 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 348020.45690.bm@smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: OstIJOMVM1kGpse5uPX1ctP5UqQo7GAVwTatjCDYyDlj4jr tLouVFbO5VlOnu5sIJNLT1FqB_8BVRW4TNgdEVNKbHjIThH_SRYWaqmJgTkA 7HZjSXe2WiIv1a6EAsGIinLZpb0yr9tfTV72q9jEm0L31PCsuKDKqMbdUN0V Gn22_wpiDza.Irw1zoUBMVYex71tJEl04yJWqTVDHPmmfrqqZqeh4W756fYa JEOk5KhVQYy8EajtSwEdvIvHgw72N0j1iadtCdcydD5fUjwz.hnRatpeRZ6H HuugoPUbAa6HuAvUGc7e7qyZXB1HDfaQj3SX92W36Ztg8gYRLtnMhySoFzZt DsW1pdTNKdGfdbj_aN7H07wFGQj1GF3OrzjQXgScLw963huyJrvQk87TwIWJ Knit7yZpKVunNKLY2uwbXvu_DxfUTQfI3Mjb0BjXXF2nF.kjEqbbhG0_y8Ws 6qgn_khII X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.188.254 with plain) by smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2013 12:22:49 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <51461808.50204@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:22:48 -0700 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130309 Thunderbird/17.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox => Java Plugin? References: <20130316131550.GA3475@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20130316131550.GA3475@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1fbcb984-4556-4625-a371-a671f6c9e974 X-Archives-Hash: 1225af87af44ec989291c3f5dfb1f191 On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes > howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are a zillion open security bugs for java and many are actively being exploited in the wild recently. If you must use java in Firefox (as I do) then make sure that your version of Firefox is the latest one (19-something) because it will ask your permission before running any java applets. Firefox will allow you to override the warnings for selected websites so it won't become irritating at sites you trust. IIUC there are exploitable bugs in java7 that don't exist in java6, so I'm sticking to java6 for now, though 6 isn't perfect either.