Mac OS X 10.6 and below: Apple's Java comes pre-installed with your Mac OS. Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and above: Java is not pre-installed with Mac OS X versions 10.7 and above. To get the latest Java from Oracle, you will need Mac OS X 10.7.3 and above. If you have Java 7 or later versions, you will see a Java icon under System Preferences. If you download Java 7, you will not be able to run Java content in Chrome and will need to use a 64-bit browser (such as Safari or Firefox) to run Java content within a browser. Additionally, installing Java 7 will disable the ability to use Apple Java 6 on your system. Note that I cannot uninstall Java 7 from my Mac as this is used for my job.
Continuing with our effort to eradicate vulnerable versions of the Java plugin, we are now blocking it for all versions of Mac OS X. We had previously blocked it for old Mac OS X versions because they would not be updated anyway, and we were holding off on updating modern versions because of a bug in the Add-ons Manager that is now fixed in Firefox 12.
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All users of Mac OS X 10.6 and above should have already been prompted to install this update. In order to avoid the block, please update immediately using Software Update. If for some reason you need to continue using an old version of the plugin, you can re-enable it in the Add-ons Manager.