They know they upgraded the applet plug-in for the browser, but the terminal command java -version doesnt refer to the plug-in.

The first is to run Java applets inside your Web browser with a plug-in.

Java 10.9 How To Remove Or

With the grave security concerns about Java these days, you may be thinking about how to remove or disable both of those Java systems completely from your Mac.

Java 10.9 Full Java System

This how-to discusses procedures to uninstalldisable both the plug-in ahd the full Java system.

If you, because of recent security alerts, upgraded that plug-in to Java 1.7 (or Java 7 in Java-speak) from Oracle, youll find the plug-in in LibraryInternet Plug-ins.

The file is JavaAppletPlugin.plugin and has the icon shown on the left.

Also, when you installed Oracles Java 7 browser plug-in, you installed a Preference Pane in System Preferences under Other.

That Preference Pane manages the Oracle Java 7 browser plug-in for applets.

It will auto-detect that a new version is available, but it will not do the installation.

Java 7 wont run in Chrome because Chrome is 32-bit and Java 7 is 64-bit.

That leaves Safari and Firefox as the remaining major Mac browsers.

The best way to block the applet plug-in in LibraryInternet Plug-ins for both Safari and Firefox browsers is to disable it in the Java Preference Pane.

By the way, you can verify which version is installed by looking at the Java tab and select View.

You can also dig down into the plug-in with the terminal app and extract the version number.

I showed this command not to be geeky but to reveal the structure of Oracles Java applet plug-in.

Alternatively, to be really safe, you could delete the file: JavaAppletPlugin.plugin in LibraryInternet Plug-ins.

But that would make it harder to easily re-enable the plug-in if you ever need it.

Most of the security issues reported so far relate to this Java applet plug-in for browsers because it is the vehicle through which maliciously crafted websites work.

Apple stopped providing its own Java browser plug-in in October, 2012 and a subsequent Software Update deleted it.

Oracle has assumed responsibility for the Java applet plug-in since then.

Finally, you can test whether your Java plug-in has been disabled by going to Oracles Java applet test page:,java.comendownloadtestjava.jsp.

Safari and Firefox may respond slightly differently.) Only if your plug-in is up to date, enabled and working properly, will you see this.

Depending on the history of your Mac, you may still have Java 1.6 (or Java 6 in Java-speak) installed for both development and native Java applications.

Java 6 is a full-fledged development system that allows developers to write and you run full Java applications such as CrashPlan or jEdit.

Apple, not Oracle, still maintains Java 6 for OS X based on patches provided by Oracle.

However, Oracle seems ready to stop issuing those updates for non-corporate users.).

Java For Mac 10.9