java and FC3

[Andy Barclay]

Marc M wrote:
> Hi, I am running FC3.  Mozilla craps out on me whenever I go to
> hushmail.com and the encryption engine for pgp kicks in.  It gives me
> a java related message (not a real error message, just a 'hey you have
> a problem that is java related' type message).

I'm running Sun's jdk 1.4.2 and it *seems* to work well. I've finally 
made the switch from mozilla to firefox and thunderbird, and they also 
seem to be well-behaved.


> 
> I have downloaded and installed Dag's java j2re rpm, with the syntax
> 
> yum --enablerepo=dag install j2re mozilla-j2re
> 
> I have done a yum update.  Is mozilla getting crappy or what?  I get
> some crashy behavior other times too.  Other than reinstall mozilla
> (then java), do you have any suggestions?  Is there a way to install
> TONS of java, way overkill but something that might fix a java browser
> issue ?
> 
> 
> Gracias, 
> Marc
>