Apple Tries To Turn People Off Java?

2009 Sept 23 at 12:02 » Tagged as :lame, android,

Tried to load a page with an applet in FF for the first time since upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard and this dialog pops up.

converting cached applets

I don't quite see the need to convert the applets in the applet cache in this manner. What the heck is the conversion anyway? any applet compiled with java.4+ will run on Java 6 (though the reverse is not true).