[PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java? (2)

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Thu Jul 2 16:44:16 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:36:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Pruett <joey at clean.q7.com>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
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> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java? (2)
> 
>> Yeah, it's pretty sad.  For several years, Sun was stubbornly refusing
>> to release a 64bit version of the browser plugin with their 64 bit
>> JRE, so many users switched back to 32bit FF on 64bit systems.  There
>> may have been other plugins with the same lameness, but I think all of
>> the 32/64 confusion with FF can be primarily blamed on Sun.  I hope
>> the OpenJDK becomes mainstream on most distros soon.
>
> centos 5 now has openjdk, but there isn't a ff plugin to use it (that i
> have been able to figure out).  do you know how to make that work?

My 64 bit java of choice is icedtea6, which contains a browser plugin
called IcedTeaPlugin.so.  Is icedtea6 the same as openjdk?  Possibly,
I don't know.

Carlos



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