simon thorpe

From my reading the old browser plugins were indeed the main threat, hence chrome and Firefox ending support for them. But some people are still somewhat concerned about Java RE. Ofc it's hard to tell quite how reasonable those concerns are. But now that Sandboxie is set up its a nice easy better-safe-than-sorry solution.

Seems to be working fine in sandboxie :)

So I got a bit worried about this and did some reading, was reminded about that massive zero-day panic and worried even more! Then tried Java 8, and thankfully JaFL seems to run fine on 8 (only went straight back to 5 before as that's the latest version you mention on the JaFL site). Sounds like 7 was the big danger so less worried now. Still doesn't feel ideal to have Java installed at all though. Never used it before, but maybe I can install Java in Sandboxie and run JaFL from within that? I'll...

btw, is running Java 5 any kind of security threat? (I'm on Windows 10) I don't think I had java RE installed at all before trying to use JaFL, so I assume my browsers (Chrome and Firefox) use their own plugins and aren't affected by the version I have installed? So does that mean it's fine? Or should I try installing Java 9 as well as 5, or something like that? Cheers

Java 9 issue