Firefox and Java bug

[Kam Leo]

On 5/2/05, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 19:47 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> > Florin Andrei wrote:
> >
> > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156319
> 
> > I'm not sure...but isn't there an update for JAVA to 1.5.xx?
> >
> > Maybe that might help...or atleast all software version angles will have
> > been explored.
> 
> Not all websites using Java are yet compatible with Java 1.5
> 
> --
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 

How does that affect the client web browser and the installation of
the JRE?  Just because a web server does not support Java 1.5 does not
mean a browser cannot use a higher version. Per Sun Microsystems the
1.5.0_03 JRE is compatible with down level versions as old as 1.2.1.