Now is not the time to be only ordinary, rise above the fray and be a Hero of the Day.
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.
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.
