Java was at version 6 update 7 which dates back to around July 2008. Not too bad, as these things go. However, the Flash Player plugin was version 6.0.79 which dates back to March 2003, more or less.

The worst was yet to come. Checking on Java at my javatester.org site turned up the fact that it wasn’t installed. Fine, except for the prompt from Firefox which wanted to install Java Version 6 ...