On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Martin Schlander wrote: > Den Saturday 15 September 2007 12:32:48 skrev Benji Weber: > > Francis pointed out to me that classpath-webplugin is installed by > > default on 10.3. This is > > > > a) rather pointless as I don't think it actually supports any applets > > ( I tried a dozen or so sites with java applets ) > > b) somewhat dangerous as I don't think I'd trust the security in the > > classpath webplugin. > > c) prevents the real sun java plugin from working when installed, > > until the user removes the classpath webplugin as this gets priority > > in both firefox and konqueror. > > > > Can I suggest > > > > - Making the sun plugin conflict with the classpath webplugin. > > - Preferably don't install the classpath version at all, if you're > > worried about completely free java go for java 7 it would be more > > reliable than classpath. > > I had this problem too. This was on x86_64 however, but I installed 32-bit > firefox and sun java-plugin and had problems getting it to work until I > figured out that I must manually remove classpath-webplugin. I thought > classpath-webplugin was only installed by default on 64-bit installations, > but apparently it's also done on 32-bit - it doesn't do much good anywhere - > but on 32-bit it's extra problematic. > > I support Benji's proposed resolutions.
IMO it is a mistake to release a 64 bit firefox without a really (!) working java. Releasing a 32 bit firefox was much better in the older distros. -- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
