A number of readers have pointed out that Apple's developer documentation for its Java updates for Mac OS X released yesterday reveals that the ...

If you've seen it, you hate: the dialog box in OS X that tells you need "legacy" Java installed, but you're not using an app that relies on Java. We have ideas on getting rid of it.

Oracle's newly released Java 7 runtime is relatively painless to install and uninstall.

Also, Java was designed to be a cross-platform technology that would allow applications to run seamlessly regardless of the operating system relied upon by the user.

Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac, much like its Windows counterpart, ticks the option to install the Ask app by default.

Apple updates Java for Mac OS X 10.6, but hints that it's winding down its support in future versions of the operating system.

In my tests on a Mac running that latest release of OS X, the installer added an app to the current browser, Chrome version 41. (In a separate test, I installed Java using the latest version of Safari ...