Java Update

[Shoe]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit - I had a notice today that a Java
update was ready to install and I went ahead and installed it. I later
noticed that links in emails (Outlook 2003) no longer worked and some
of the graphics in Firefox were jumping around during scrolling. I
disabled Java in both IE and Firefox and the problems went away. This
is why I don't allow these udpates to install automatically. I want to
know when they install. Apparently a bug in Java. The version in FF is
6.0.33.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit - I had a notice today that a Java
update was ready to install and I went ahead and installed it. I later
noticed that links in emails (Outlook 2003) no longer worked and some
of the graphics in Firefox were jumping around during scrolling. I
disabled Java in both IE and Firefox and the problems went away. This
is why I don't allow these udpates to install automatically. I want to
know when they install. Apparently a bug in Java. The version in FF is
6.0.33.

Update FF. I'm on version 13.01.

Ed

 

[Shoe]

Update FF. I'm on version 13.01.

Ed

The version number I gave is for Java - I'm also on FF 13.0.1

 

[Ed Cryer]

The version number I gave is for Java - I'm also on FF 13.0.1

I'm on Java 7, Update 4 (build 1.7.0_04-b22)

Ed

 

[KCB]

I'm on Java 7, Update 4 (build 1.7.0_04-b22)

Ed

And the latest, according to
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
is Java 7, Update 5

 

[KCB]

I'm on Java 7, Update 4 (build 1.7.0_04-b22)

Ed

I sent that first one too quick. Oracle recommends updating to version 7
with the following:

"We highly recommend downloading and installing Java 7. The latest release
for Java contains many new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes
to improve the running of Java Applets or applications."

 

[Paul]

I'm on Java 7, Update 4 (build 1.7.0_04-b22)

Ed

I thought there was some issue with the install logic on some of the
older versions of Java. Like, being unable to get it install over
the top of an older version.

http://www.itninja.com/question/java-6-installation-issues

Perhaps completely removing Java first, and then looking for the
latest and greatest version would help ?

Paul

 

[Ed Cryer]

I thought there was some issue with the install logic on some of the
older versions of Java. Like, being unable to get it install over
the top of an older version.

http://www.itninja.com/question/java-6-installation-issues

Perhaps completely removing Java first, and then looking for the
latest and greatest version would help ?

Paul

I did just that; and I'm now on version 7.5.
There is an anomaly, though.
When I check Java in Control Panel it says it's on update 1.
But when I check it here;
http://javatester.org/version.html
it says update 5 from Oracle Corporation.

Hhhhmm!

Ed

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I did just that; and I'm now on version 7.5. There is an anomaly,
though. When I check Java in Control Panel it says it's on update 1.
But when I check it here; http://javatester.org/version.html it says
update 5 from Oracle Corporation.

After removing previous versions of Java, I installed version 7,
update 5, both 32 and 64 bit builds, today. The Control Panel shows it
correctly as 7 update 5, and they are both listed correctly in Programs
and Features.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I thought there was some issue with the install logic on some of the
older versions of Java. Like, being unable to get it install over
the top of an older version.

http://www.itninja.com/question/java-6-installation-issues

Perhaps completely removing Java first, and then looking for the
latest and greatest version would help ?

Paul

What I recall is that the new version installed OK, but the old version
remained as well.

Wth some effort, one could find a way in Mozilla or FF Help to clean it
up, but the problem eventually went away - maybe a year ago.

 

[Nil]

What I recall is that the new version installed OK, but the old
version remained as well.

Wth some effort, one could find a way in Mozilla or FF Help to
clean it up, but the problem eventually went away - maybe a year
ago.

That's about right. Up to a certain point, Java would install itself
along side the previous version, but wouldn't remove that old version.
It would also add the new path to the system variable without removing
the old one. Also, it installed a Control Panel applet that didn't have
the correct permissions to operate, so that any changes you tried to
made there didn't stick. The whole thing was disgracefully inept.
Oracle finally fixed most or all the accumulated problems just a couple
of years ago.

 

[Shoe]

I thought there was some issue with the install logic on some of the
older versions of Java. Like, being unable to get it install over
the top of an older version.

http://www.itninja.com/question/java-6-installation-issues

Perhaps completely removing Java first, and then looking for the
latest and greatest version would help ?

Paul

Interesting that Ed is on version 7. I received an update notification
from Java yesterday and downloaded and installed the "update". It was
version 6. After reading this reply, I uninstalled all Java and
installed the new version 7. So far, so good, the problem I had with
version 6 is no longer there.

 

[Ed Cryer]

After removing previous versions of Java, I installed version 7,
update 5, both 32 and 64 bit builds, today. The Control Panel shows it
correctly as 7 update 5, and they are both listed correctly in Programs
and Features.

I've done exactly that and ended up the same.
Thank you.

I think the mix-up is caused by the two different versions being very
incompetently handled by the installers.


Ed