I have been playing Spiral Knights for nearly 6 months with java 6 (Apple provides their own java) on an iMac desktop. That was until two weeks ago when Apple has decided to remove/disable java 6, forcing all Mac users to rely on java 7.

After installing Oracle's java 7 (1.7.0_09) on my iMac OS X 10.7.5, Spiral Knights refuses to launch in Safari browser.

I went to other gaming websites that require java to run, and they work fine. Therefore, I know java isn't the problem, at least with other games.

I access Spiral Knights thru Kongregate. When I click on PLAY NOW button, the game checks for the latest patch, and upon ensuring that I have the latest patch installed, it then requests the user for a permission to launch the game something along the line of :

This applet was signed by "Three Rings Design, Inc.," and authenticated by ... blah blah blah. Do you trust this certificate?

Then I am supposed to click on Trust/Accept. But I no longer see such window appear.

Thinking perhaps Safari's pop-up blocker was the culprit, I disabled it and tried launching the game again. Again, no luck.

Not to give up so easily, I tried accessing Spiral Knights thru http://www.spiralknights.com rather than Kongregate. Same symptoms; still unable to launch the game.

Then I deleted everything I had under ~/Library/Application Support/spiral/ and reinstalled the game files. Again, the game won't launch.

So ... I am a loss. It seems I can't access the game anymore.

Any ideas? I am open to suggestions...

p.s. I know I am not the only Mac user in the game. So surely, I can't be the only one with this problem.