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

Dan Colish dcolish at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 17:12:19 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Carlos Konstanski <
ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:

> 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"
> >     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > 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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FWIW, Fedora 11  x86_64 works great with IcedTea. I also ran this of Fedora
10 without issue. IcedTea is really just a wrapper for OpenJDK. Slightly off
this topic, the flash plugin for 64bit works really well too.

Proof from my about:plugins page
The IcedTea Java Web Browser Plugin 1.4.1 (fedora-20.b14.fc11-x86_64)

--Dan



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