Yeah more or less. Both are security risks these days, neither Apple nor Adobe updates their PowerPC Flash/Java anymore, and Flash is just plain pathetically slow on OS X.
From my blog:
In this day and age, Flash and Java are the digital equivalents the equivalent of dropping a bar of soap in a prison shower.
OK, back in high school we played with Flash to make animations.
And then Flash became popular on the web. At the same time, Java (entirely different to the similarly named JavaScript) was becoming popular as a cross-platform programming language.
Long story short, both have now outlived their usefulness, both are riddled with security holes and other such things that you do not want. Flash can store special LSO cookies in your web browser to track you. Also consider that Flash has utterly horrific performance on OS X. Today I eradicated Flash and Java from my three main computers. Now I tell you how to do it.
First up, Flash. If you want to simply block it, the Firefox addon Flashblock will do so, for Safari, use ClickToFlash. I preferred to simply wipe it off my computer entirely. To do that, you download Adobes official Flash Uninstaller. Link is [here].
Next, Java. You can disable it quite easily, you got to /Applications/Utilities and open Java Preferences. You open that, and youll see a couple of checkboxes that say something like JSE 5.0″. Uncheck them to disable Java.
Unfortunately I found that isnt always totally reliable, as it seemed to only disable Java on the admin account on the computer I disabled it on. That made me a bit antsy so I simply deleted Java. You can tell it has worked if you then try to open the Java Preferences application and it crashes.
How to delete Java? You need to delete 3 files/folders:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
And there you have it. Java and Flash GONE.
To check you have eradicated Java, open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and run the following command:
sudo /usr/libexec/java_home
You will be required to enter your admin password. If you do not have Java installed, the terminal should reply with something like this:
sudo: /usr/libexec/java_home: command not found
<3
http://michaelanthonyralph.com/wp/2012/11/08/in-this-day-and-age-flash-and-java-are-the-digital-equivalent-of-dropping-a-bar-of-soap-in-a-prison-shower/
From my blog:
In this day and age, Flash and Java are the digital equivalents the equivalent of dropping a bar of soap in a prison shower.
OK, back in high school we played with Flash to make animations.
And then Flash became popular on the web. At the same time, Java (entirely different to the similarly named JavaScript) was becoming popular as a cross-platform programming language.
Long story short, both have now outlived their usefulness, both are riddled with security holes and other such things that you do not want. Flash can store special LSO cookies in your web browser to track you. Also consider that Flash has utterly horrific performance on OS X. Today I eradicated Flash and Java from my three main computers. Now I tell you how to do it.
First up, Flash. If you want to simply block it, the Firefox addon Flashblock will do so, for Safari, use ClickToFlash. I preferred to simply wipe it off my computer entirely. To do that, you download Adobes official Flash Uninstaller. Link is [here].
Next, Java. You can disable it quite easily, you got to /Applications/Utilities and open Java Preferences. You open that, and youll see a couple of checkboxes that say something like JSE 5.0″. Uncheck them to disable Java.
Unfortunately I found that isnt always totally reliable, as it seemed to only disable Java on the admin account on the computer I disabled it on. That made me a bit antsy so I simply deleted Java. You can tell it has worked if you then try to open the Java Preferences application and it crashes.
How to delete Java? You need to delete 3 files/folders:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
And there you have it. Java and Flash GONE.
To check you have eradicated Java, open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and run the following command:
sudo /usr/libexec/java_home
You will be required to enter your admin password. If you do not have Java installed, the terminal should reply with something like this:
sudo: /usr/libexec/java_home: command not found
<3
http://michaelanthonyralph.com/wp/2012/11/08/in-this-day-and-age-flash-and-java-are-the-digital-equivalent-of-dropping-a-bar-of-soap-in-a-prison-shower/
