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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by Wilya on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:38AM (#5344313)
Is navigator.javaEnabled() (used in this page) accurate ? I deactivated Java plugin in Chrome's about://plugins (and restarted everything just to be sure), and it still returns true. Did I do something wrong ?
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by mike_esspe on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:49AM (#5344366)
It's the bug (or feature) of Chrome:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13648431/507072

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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by revelation on Friday March 08, 2013 @01:44PM (#5344963)
Someone should really spend a second thinking about what use that API with that behavior is to developers. And then not implement it anyway, because it's not in the spec.
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by yuhong on Saturday March 09, 2013 @01:37AM (#5347644)
I think it dates back to when Netscape had built-in Java.
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by kurd_debuggr on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:43AM (#5344341)
You can tell if Java is running in your browser by testing it here: http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by pudquick on Friday March 08, 2013 @03:43PM (#5345644)
I prefer: http://javatester.org/version.html

Tells you whether it's loaded, and what version you have loaded. No frills, no crap website.

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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by speedyrev on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:43AM (#5344343)
It made me actually check and make sure that I had disabled the plugin. I thought I had already done it.
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by michaelwww on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:42AM (#5344337)
Same here. Appears to be disabled http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by UnoriginalGuy on Friday March 08, 2013 @12:31PM (#5344590)
Returns true even though I have Click-To-Play enabled. Cannot decide if that is accurate or not...
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Re:Days since last known Java 0-day exploit by ars on Friday March 08, 2013 @01:12PM (#5344836)
That makes sense. If you have Click-To-Play you do have Java, so returning true is correct.
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