java and FC3

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Marc M wrote:

> Actually this IS firefox, I should've specified that originally...I
> don't know enough about what is going on under the hood with java, to
> know whether just a plugin fixes these things, or whether I somehow
> need more, like the full SDK or JDK packages.

You only need the JRE if you only want plugins for Firefox.  I've seen 
flakey behavior (read crashes) with Sun's 1.4.2 JVM and FF, though.  They 
were fixed by using the 1.5.0_01 version.

>
> Marc
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:51:51 -0800, Andy Barclay <game138 at unixpeople.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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