Couldn't turn off Java in Edit/Preferences/General and couldn't figure out why.

Saw no setting in PREFS.JS so poked around and found the setting in ALL.JS.

So when I tried to edit from within K-Meleon by removing the check mark next to Java, it accepted my change, yet when I exited K-Meleon and then ran the browser again, the checkmark was back once again. The only way I could stop Java from loading was to "manually" edit ALL.JS as follows:

// pref("security.enable_java", true);
pref("security.enable_java", false);

Any idea why this works this way?

N

As far as I know there are two types of Java, for Microsoft Explorer and what thet describe as Netscape 6. If your Java is enabled for Netscape. it will stay that way for everything related. However, I do not have K-meleon installed, so I do not know why you cannot turn off its Java from the preference table.

ndebord,

We'll need to check that out. I might be a bug.

FYI.

I'm running Sun Java 1.3.1_06. I had tried Java 1.4xx, but ran into problems and went back to the earlier version. I used SetBrowse to make K-Meleon my default browser.

N

I tested this in a fresh install of 0.7 and had no problem getting the pref to stay. I think we'll need more details on the setup to work this out.

Andrew,

My solution, for now, has been to disable the java settings in all.js and to manually turn java on with true/false in prefs.js. With settings disabled entirely, java is turned on in edit/preferences/general

# Mozilla User Preferences
// This is a generated file!

user_pref("browser.anchor_color", "#0000EE");
user_pref("browser.visited_color", "#00008A");
user_pref("browser.display.use_document_colors", false);
user_pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", false);
user_pref("browser.display.foreground_color", "#000000"); //black
user_pref("browser.display.background_color", "#ffffff"); //white
user_pref("browser.visited_color", "#FF0000"); //red
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "Arial");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Times New Roman");
user_pref("browser.cache.check_doc_frequency", 1);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 20480);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "Z:\\cache\\");
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 40960);
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "C:\\DL");
user_pref("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile", "audio/x-pn-realaudio,audio/x-realaudio, application/vnd.rn-realmedia");
user_pref("browser.wfe.ignore_def_check", false);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("capability.policy.restrictedpopups.Window.open", "noAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.restrictedpopups.sites", "");
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.general.CloseDownloadDialog", true);
user_pref("general.useragent.vendor", "K-Meleon 0.7");
user_pref("kmeleon.MRU.URL0", "http://www.freewarepro.com/";
user_pref("kmeleon.MRU.maxURLs", 1);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.NewWindowHasUrlFocus", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.XPos", 66);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.YPos", 66);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.backgroundImage", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\Profiles\\default\\wtlkei61.slt\\Back.bmp");
user_pref("kmeleon.display.backgroundImageEnabled", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.disableResize", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.height", 529);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.maximized", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.newWindowOpenAs", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.display.newWindowURL", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.display.width", 610);
user_pref("kmeleon.find.matchCase", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.find.searchBackwards", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.find.wrapAround", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.general.CloseDownloadDialog", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.general.homePage", "http://www.myway.com";
user_pref("kmeleon.general.pluginsDir", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\kplugins\\");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.saveDir", "C:\\TEMP\\");
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=";
user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://www.google.com/search?q=";
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=";
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=";
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.searchEngine", "http://www.altavista.com/search?q=";
user_pref("kmeleon.general.settingsDir", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\Profiles\\default\\wtlkei61.slt\\");
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.skinsCurrent", "blue\\");
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.skinsCurrent", "chimera\\");
// user_pref("kmeleon.general.skinsCurrent", "default\\");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.skinsCurrent", "default\\");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.skinsDir", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\skins\\");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.sourceCommand", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.sourceEnabled", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.general.startHome", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.bmpmenu.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.bookmarks.bookmarkFile", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\Profiles\\default\\wtlkei61.slt\\bookmarks.html");
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.bookmarks.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.bookmarks.toolbarFolder", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.external.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.favorites.load", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.fullscreen.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.history.load", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.hotlist.hotlistFile", "C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\K-MELEON\\Profiles\\default\\wtlkei61.slt\\opera.adr");
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.hotlist.load", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.layers.load", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.layers.rebar", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.macros.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.rebarmenu.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.toolbars.load", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.prefs_inited", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.print.BGColors", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.print.BGImages", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.print.footerLeft", "&PT");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.footerMiddle", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.footerRight", "&D");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.headerLeft", "&T");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.headerMiddle", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.headerRight", "&U");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.marginBottom", "0.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.marginLeft", "0.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.marginRight", "0.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.marginTop", "0.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.paperHeight", "11");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.paperUnit", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.print.paperWidth", "8.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.print.scaling", 100);
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent0.name", "Default");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent0.string", "");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent1.name", "Netscape 6.1");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent1.string", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US) Netscape6/6.1");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent2.name", "Netscape 4.76");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent2.string", "Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U)");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent3.name", "MSIE 6.0");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent3.string", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent4.name", "MSIE 5.5");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent4.string", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent5.name", "MSIE 4.0");
user_pref("kmeleon.privacy.useragent5.string", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)");
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Menu.break", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Menu.index", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Menu.size", 251);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Menu.visibility", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Throbber.break", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Throbber.index", 1);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Throbber.size", 28);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Throbber.visibility", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Tool Bar .break", 1);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Tool Bar .index", 2);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Tool Bar .size", 265);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.Tool Bar .visibility", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.URL Bar.break", 0);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.URL Bar.index", 3);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.URL Bar.size", 533);
user_pref("kmeleon.toolband.URL Bar.visibility", true);
user_pref("layout.xml.prettyprint", true);
user_pref("network.dir.generate_html", true);
user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload", true); //prevent xul.mfl
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);
user_pref("signon.SignonFileName", "37772321.s");
user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false);
// pref("security.enable_java", true);
pref("security.enable_java", false);