JDK-8040758 : Java for Mac will not disable automatic updates on OS X 10.9 or later
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: plugin
  • Affected Version: 7u51,8
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: os_x
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2014-04-16
  • Updated: 2015-02-20
  • Resolved: 2014-12-16
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-8029309 - [macosx] Java Control Panel unable to perform tasks requiring admin privileges
Description
OS: OSX

Browser: Safari

User agent strings: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/537.75.14

A user reported the following: "The latest version of Java for Macintosh will NOT let me disable automatic updates. Every time I turn it off and click ok, close the java window.. The open it back up and it has the Automatic Update Java Checked! I cannot have this update automatically! I prefer to update it when I want to! PLEASE HELP!"

Reproduced by the support team with Java 7u55.

Steps to reproduce: 
1 - Uncheck the updates
2 - Click Apply....
3 - Enter password....
4 - Click OK...
5 - Reopen control panel....
6 - Check box still checked.
Comments
Tried changing JavaAutoUpdateEnabled in /Library/Preferences/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, looks like on Mavericks JCP setting does not actually get/set the key value and the "Auto Update" always got checked.
23-05-2014
Customer Confirmed: The bug is for the LATEST version of OS X, 10.9.2, with both Java 7 and Java 8.
22-05-2014
Tested with 7u55 and 8u20 on OS X 10.8.5, auto update check box works fine. Need to talk to support to see if I missed anything for the repro. One note, for step 4, picture 3, it's "continue to check" or "do no check" button.
14-05-2014
reported against JDK7 only, so assigned to sustaining
06-05-2014