Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Rawhide

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Thu Dec 20 15:49:42 UTC 2007


* Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> [2007-12-20 10:00]:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:49:49 -0500
> Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, but situation is not that rosy. Trivial applets
> > work, that's true, but more complicated (and interesting
> > ones) depend on LiveConnect, and those break badly.
> > 
> > In fact, for some cases the situation is worse than
> > not having Java, because it looks like its available
> > (and thus prevent a decent fallback), and when they
> > start they block/crash the browser.
> 
> How much of that is icedtea vs just not being java 1.5 or 1.4, given
> that icedtea is 1.7 I think.

None.  LiveConnect is the java<->javascript bridge.  Tom Fitzsimmons is
working on it.

Andrew
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