Explore Our Help Articles. Dig into the knowledge base, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and so much more. Firefox Browser; Firefox Private Network. For those reasons, Mozilla instituted only a partial block of the Java plug-in, limiting it to copies of Firefox running on Macs powered by OS X 10.5 or earlier. OS X 10.5 is better known as Leopard.
If, after installing Java for OS X 2014-001 and the latest version of Java 7 from Oracle, you want to disable Java 7 and re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality, follow these steps.
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Note: You must be logged in as an administrator. If prompted for your administrator password after a command, enter it and then press the Return or Enter key.
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- Open Terminal, located in the Utilities folder.
- Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
- Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
- Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
- To re-enable Java SE 6 Web Start, enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
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The following steps will undo the above commands and restore Java 7 in OS X Lion and later.
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- Disable Java SE 6 Web Start opening:
- Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
- When prompted, enter your administrator password, then press the Return or Enter key.
- Re-enable the Java 7 applet plug-in bydownloading and reinstalling the latest version of Oracle Java 7 JRE.