Safari and Firefox and Java 2

[JackRabbit]

Good grief


I use the USPS Click N Ship constantly for my business. Whenever I have to ship overseas, the Click N Ship loads up the label in a java applet. Formerly, I could ONLY get this applet to open up using FireFox.

--USPS' page says that I should go to apple.com to load the Java 2 Runtime environment. Naturally the link is dead.

This afternoon Firefox updated and now whenever I open that USPS page to print off a label, Firefox shuts down. Bam. Gone.

I tried in Safari, but I just get a pop up message that says "Pitney Bowles Wants to print... Okay?" and it freezes. I have to force quit every time.

How can I update my browsers OR is there another browser that will work? I can't seem to find IE 5 anymore.

Thanks for any help!!
Amanda

 

[MacHeadCase]

Amanda, maybe you could give Camino a try and see if it doesn't work better than Firefox?

Let us know how this goes for you.

 

[JackRabbit]

Thanks, I will try that now.

I also just downloaded mozilla and I did find an IE 5 .. neither worked ... *whimper*

 

[Del]

Download page for the Java runtime/plugin http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

 

[JackRabbit]

Camino acted like it was going to load, then it pulled a FireFox on me!

I'll try the java download - thanks!


I will NOT lose this battle! LOL

 

[JackRabbit]

Oh, actually Del, that is the page that the USPS page takes you to. (the link beside OSX)

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/

if you click on download in the box at the right, you get this

Looking for something at Apple.com?
The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. You might find what you’re looking for in one of these areas:

 

[MacHeadCase]

I found this link, Java 2 SE 5.0 Release 1 but I'm not sure if this is the latest release... lemme check some more.

 

[MacHeadCase]

Amanda, do you have an Intel-based Mac... sorry can't look at your specs if you posted them right now...

Ok so no specs... J2SE 5.0 Release 4 (Intel)

and if you have a PowerPC Mac, J2SE 5.0 Release 4 (PPC)

Java Runtime is for Mac OS 8 and 9 so it has been updated since then...

Edited to add:

Here are all the hits for Java at Apple Support (Download section).