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mwb1100:
My understanding is that if you install the Java runtime (JRE) with the optional toolbar, any (or maybe just some) JRE automatic updates will include a pre-checked option to include the toolbar in the update - even if you turned off the toolbar option on the initial install. So you have to remember to deselect that thing each time.

But, if you go to the developer oriented download site:

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

and choose the JRE download there, you'll get a version that doesn't package the toolbar at all.

tomos:
thanks for that tip mwb!

My understanding is that if you install the Java runtime (JRE) with the optional toolbar, any (or maybe just some) JRE automatic updates will include a pre-checked option to include the toolbar in the update - even if you turned off the toolbar option on the initial install. So you have to remember to deselect that thing each time.-mwb1100 (January 16, 2013, 02:29 AM)
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AFAIK I havent installed the ASK toolbar (but I may have done - and done a quick system restore after). Anyways, just to say the ASK option is always ticked here by default.

Tinman57:
But, if you go to the developer oriented download site:
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
and choose the JRE download there, you'll get a version that doesn't package the toolbar at all.
-mwb1100 (January 16, 2013, 02:29 AM)
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  I downloaded my offline version directly from Oracle's site at http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp[/url] , why would that be any different from the technetwork page?   :tellme:  That's really strange! WTF?

x16wda:
why would that be any different from the technetwork page?
-Tinman57 (January 17, 2013, 07:20 PM)
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Because the more dev-oriented types probably wouldn't want the dratted thing, and it's generally poor practice to tick off your developers?

Of course, Joe User apparently doesn't mind toolbars... (have we had a poll asking the most toolbars you've had to clean off someone's pc?)

Tinman57:
why would that be any different from the technetwork page?
-Tinman57 (January 17, 2013, 07:20 PM)
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Because the more dev-oriented types probably wouldn't want the dratted thing, and it's generally poor practice to tick off your developers?

Of course, Joe User apparently doesn't mind toolbars... (have we had a poll asking the most toolbars you've had to clean off someone's pc?)

-x16wda (January 17, 2013, 07:32 PM)
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  And then it finally clicked, this is the Developers Kit, which is the one that I, and most ordinary folks don't want or need.   ::)

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