George- What Darrell said. Ancestry does use JavaSCRIPT but not JAVA to my knowledge. I use Ancestry all the time with JAVA disabled and everything works just fine. Joan In a message dated 2/25/2013 5:56:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, darrellm@sprynet.com writes: On 2/25/2013 3:33 PM, George W. Durman wrote: > Thank you David, > > It is also required for looking at trees at Ancestry and for looking > at Census records and other records there. At least when I turned > off JAVA in Firefox, almost nothing worked at Ancestry. Also, if > you look at the bottom left of the screen when saving citations to > someone in a tree, you'll see JAVA is running. If you're working in > a tree and click on a previously added citation with JAVA off, > nothing happens! Again, at the bottom left you'll see that JAVA > Script is trying to run, but doesn't. > > George George: Java, or JavaScript? They are two completely distinct things, despite the confusingly similar names. As far as I know, there are no security issues with JavaScript. Darrell ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message