[fedora-java] a simple way to enable / disable Java?

Mario Torre neugens at redhat.com
Mon Jan 14 17:16:28 UTC 2013


Il giorno lun, 14/01/2013 alle 09.16 -0500, Mikolaj Izdebski ha scritto:
> > So if one were needing to enable Java for a trusted site, while browsing conservatively elsewhere, is there anything simpler to do than this cycle of: 
> > - install icedtea-web-... 
> > - kill and restart web browser 
> > - use Java 
> > - erase icedtea-web-... 
> > - kill and restart web browser 
> > - browse safely 
> > : 
> > Is there an intent to make this simpler in future versions? 
> 
> Why not just disable Java plugin and restart/kill web browser?
> I don't see any good reason to erase icedtea-web.
> 

I think for the future it would be nice to implement some sort of
general "disable" switch to have from the icedtea-web control panel, but
yeah, there is no need to uninstall anything, just enable/disable the
plugin from the browser directly is the easiest way for the time being.

Cheers,
Mario



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