Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:24:38 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/opera ISSUE Java Plugin missing Message-ID: <20130118012438.66b84bc1@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <1358468373919-5778675.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <CACGq7x36hROmEwYS75YZM1o=c7R4kpWX3thmT_J-7=CRz=zQWw@mail.gmail.com> <1358468373919-5778675.post@n5.nabble.com>
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:19:33 -0800 (PST) Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> wrote: > People actually still use browser java plug-ins/ they actually work? > > Life never ceases to amaze. > > Seriously though, I see no place for them in modern operating > systems at all. Awful security record, as well as required only > by obsolete and broken by design things. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/www-opera-ISSUE-Java-Plugin-missing-tp5778625p5778675.html > Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To > unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Java plug-ins are horrible indeed, unfortunately some entities - especially business banking - don't get it and still deliver new applications written for Java-plugins (this happened to us recently, the original version of the software was HTML and the updated version is in Java now, it's slow like hell and with all the security leaks around it's a nightmare to administer people's machines to run dual browser setups etc.). For Joe Consumer it's fortunately mostly gone now. -- Michael Gmelin
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