SInce I do none of the tasks mentioned in Box's mini-list: might as well Nuke (Java) from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.. (to coin a phrase.)
Last (nice!) factoids, over 23 hours--as result of the unKnowable OS X intestinal tweaks:

Machine now back to early Speed; idle stays near 100% and Free mem drops only so long as a new URL eats some.. goes back up when that is nuked.
Shouldn't need Swap until I d/l a .pdf of War & Peace and the New Zombie Menace in 3-D Excessovision.

Given that Safari Build #s are unchanged, seems obvious that (a surmise, of course) enough Fanbois carped about Safari's terminal swap-happiness and
... Corporate fixed something in the OS. Even this 'old' version !?
Kudos Apple! (if this is approx. correct.)

Thanks fer yer immoral support ;^>