Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have two F-19/64 computers with Firefox 22 that want "Java Runtime
> Environment" in order to access http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/crossword/
> and several others. It appears that java openjdk is installed?

The JRE is just the Java (OpenJDK) runtime to run Java apps, desktop
apps, and server apps, but not applets. For applets you need to web
browser plugin. The web browser plugin is provided by the package
Icedtea-web.

I know where your confusion comes from: in the Windows world,
"installing Java" gets you the JRE + the browser plug-in, which is
essentially a part of the JRE. Well on Linux it's not, because when
Sun open sourced Java under a GPL license back in 2006 creating the
OpenJDK project, they did not include the browser plugin component.

I have argued with the JRE developers that Icedtea-web is
counter-intuitive and that at least an alias of "openjdk-plugin"
should be used, but met with staunch opposition from the Icedtea
devs.... so there...

Install icedtea-web.
FC
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