Now pointlessly enhanced with AI
Apparently this is still a thing for an application to add/change search provider. Java installer/updater is asking user to install search app by Ask.com.
This has to stop.
Doesn’t Oracle have enough money already? Why are they doing this?
Adobe used to do similar thing. Now Adobe offers Photoshop Lightroom when user downloads Flash Player. It goes something like this: “Your Flash Player is out of date, please update it and have a trial of Photoshop Lightroom to go with it.”
Apple releases Java for OS X 2013-005.
From the release notes:
This release updates the Apple-provided system Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_65 and is for OS X versions 10.7 or later.
This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers. To use applets on a web page, click on the region labeled “Missing plug-in” to go download the latest version of the Java applet plug-in from Oracle.
I do not really have the need for Java if not for Adobe Creative Suite.
Apple updates iPhoto 9.4.3 and Java for OS X (Java for OS X 2013-003 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 15).
In addition to that Apple also updates:
Apple releases update for Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_43. This update is available for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, OS X Lion, and OS X Mountain Lion.
Oracle recently updates Java SE 7.
Oracle releases Java 7 Update 15. The update is available on Java site or through Java Control Panel. Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows users who use Java should get the update as soon as possible.
Apple has also updates Java SE 6 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, OS X Lion and Mountain Lion; following the news of hacker attack on Apple and Facebook.
Apple releases Java SE 6 updates for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, OS X Lion and Mountain Lion.
In related news, Apple admits to being victim of hacker attack through vulnerability in Java.
I’d really want to title this post: “Shit Slashdot Say” but it wouldn’t be fair to the rest of Slashdot users.
To be honest, are there any actual Mac users other than the one Slashdot user imagined angered by Apple by silently shutting down Java 7? In addition to that, the posting on Slashdot was 2 days late. Oracle released Java 7 Update 13 on February 1, 2013. Typical Apple-hating Slashdot user.
Now if only Meatloaf is here to give them the “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” award.
