If you’re a Mac user and want to play that blocky sandbox game everyone knows, you’re not alone. But if you’ve tried ...

Firefox users can disable Java in the browser via the “Plugins” tab of the Add-ons menu. Mac OS X machines ship with their own versions of Java, which Apple updates from time to time.

The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.

Mac Flashback Trojan means now is a good time to install the latest Java for Mac OS X update for protection against this information sealing malware that a Java vulnerability.

Java Platform JDK 7u4, JavaFX 2.1, and Netbeans are available to download now, and support OS X 10.7. The Mac port of Java will also be maintained as open source under the OpenJDK project.

"In evaluating whether Java was working properly on my Macs with the update to Mac OS X 10.3.9, I used Sun's web page that tests the Java virtual machine and found that although Safari was using ...

Apple recently released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (which adds Java SE 6 to your Mac) after receiving much criticism for omitting it when Leopard shipped:Discussion threads began to appear in ...

Flashback Attack Mac Flashback trojan exploits unpatched Java vulnerability, no password needed The Flashback trojan can now hijack Macs even when users don't enter an admin password.

Oracle is now giving Mac users the ability to get Java updates at the same time as they are available for Windows and Linux with the release of the Java SE 7 Update 4.

Theoretically, a developer can write a Java program to run inside the virtual machine, and it will run without modification on any platform—Mac, Windows, Linux, or whatever is running a valid JVM.

The Java for Mac patch batch, available for Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, includes a fix for a vulnerability that's more than a year old. Written by Ryan Naraine, Contributor May 19, 2010, 12: ...