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 87586198005 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 046A4E06F5; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f44.google.com (mail-la0-f44.google.com [209.85.215.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CB6FE0662 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id eb20so368714lab.3 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=JFMHcr7E3Kn7twcw60FN+clHNXRHruy8aGdQFcDRkyo=; b=yzh9oJYiSD2yEh+HQ7oRIh0GfcqeSRyvaKaMeKnSP3ug+n9oggLmGq3Z/Pd7aAk93k UIg1Ssmk5XyS6o5N3B9KZaV8oGc4MDl5A2FlO4e6Eljd2Y9KjJPC1i9/9SH1J0XgSTcD 3iN72j1NJFSha2mtmPxhmNg68BbBvYr2TJdTAh36zWBe0ljgGKHX7BWqA77EIUKgDPkK HweNxb8AERcDB6SXdVHYpwd7NGhUHD8E94iTul8dFGQrtvTT4RgOibr6/K8D8ZIM3fwb HPr3OKd7n/RZ/BcComU9fa1RYYL4VUrqVq5a1hemEy4vVMWGCEntqFOM6fy4wsMGNGNl H7WQ== X-Received: by 10.152.46.12 with SMTP id r12mr1038173lam.15.1363681284607; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monolith ([2001:708:30:15c0:221:ccff:fe39:9159]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pk1sm10388999lab.0.2013.03.19.01.21.23 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "Nuno J. Silva" From: (Nuno Silva) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox => Java Plugin? References: <20130316131550.GA3475@solfire> <51461808.50204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:22:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <51461808.50204@gmail.com> (walt's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:22:48 -0700") Message-ID: <87ip4ndcjj.fsf@ist.utl.pt> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: da2e696d-9560-406a-a7f7-8f36c1e5e7b6 X-Archives-Hash: f5f9d9d460087fc05ccc2d02c073ac55 On 2013-03-17, walt wrote: > 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. Or use NoScript or some other extension that lets you block embedded content by default, like some people have been doing for years now. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/