On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Carlos Konstanski < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
