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Java is a never ending story of fun. I had a case where my grandma had issues logging into her online banking account, because the applet threw some sort of error response to her. Turns out that Chrome shipped with a newer version of Java than the banks accepted, and instead of telling her that, they threw an "You're running an old and outdated version of Java, please contact support"-error.


Chrome doesn't ship with Java, only Flash. Java has that pesky auto-update-Yahoo-toolbar-installer thing.




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