[Molvis-list] FirstGlance blocked in Snow Leopard

[Fox, Kristin]

What you have written below is also true for Mountain Lion. My class used
it yesterday and as long as you click on that "inactive plug in" link it
works fine.
Kristin M. Fox
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Director of Biochemistry
Director of Undergraduate Research
Union College
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Schenectady, NY 12308
Phone: (518) 388-6250
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On 1/31/13 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-du
>e-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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