and its also estimated that it’ll be at least 4 millions copies sold by the end of the year. 
out of 2 Billion Internet Users http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
I make that 0.2%… Still. Not widely used but getting there ???
strange that Unity3D isn’t blocked though when its used even less frequently then Java.
It’s pretty clear this has nothing to do with the numbers. The 90-95% of people they claim will never need Java for there web experience was pulled out of thin air. Also the reason google became such a popular search engine was because of the 1% of searches that competitors couldn’t get right.
It’s pretty clear this is a direct attack on Oracle and Apple and I think doing so via your software is a pretty sad way to go about it.
That’s just retarded. I was about to switch to Chromium, but now screw that. I’ll keep my big slow FF lol.
[quote]before running lesser-used plug-ins, use the command line flag --always-authorize-plugins.
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this sentence tell everything about Google, they are just ashole … oups… sry for the bad word :-X java is the second (or near) plugin most used all over the world
The reason Google became popular was because 1) they didn’t surround the search engine with a portal and 2) it worked. The Google guys had a basic test they would perform where on a rival search engine they would search for that competitor (i.e. searching for altavista on AltaVista). Most search engines at the time failed this test.
The simple fact is that Java is used on only a minority of websites, whilst at the same time it’s becoming more and more popular as an attack vector. I don’t think there is any conspiracy here, I think it comes down to Google wanting to be able to say that Chrome is safe. With bugs in Java WebStart (including some recent ones), they cannot claim this whilst Java is enabled by default. The problem here lies with Oracle.
Google is just think too much they are God, and they are doing good without any concern about law or fairplay
as google take most of its money incom from adsense… I dream of the day a cupple of website will produce false click on those advertisments on random website using their own visitors, making the whole system unreliable
This also extends to Chromium! I thought Chromium would have higher standards, but they’re just as evil :<
Good for Google. Die applets die.
Cas
So is it only unsigned applets?
it was a so sweet time when we was still saying “What is Google?”
[quote]So is it only unsigned applets?
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For all applets.
I just successfully launched an applet (a signed one) using Chrome 11.0.696.57 (on Ubuntu 11.04).
Am I missing something?
They can still be run just fine. They just require 1 extra step of “allow this to run” unless you have it turned on already to allow all.
I didn’t even have to do that.
I guess it’s because your on Ubuntu. Because I’m on Chrome 11.0.696.60 on Windows.
Which is odd that they have done that.