On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:36:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Joe Pruett <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
