JRE for Firefox

[Sean]

On Tue, February 15, 2005 10:30 pm, Rodd Clarkson said:
> I'm a little confused about all this so please be gentle.
>
> I'm looking for a JRE to use as a plugin for Firefox.  In the past I
> would have just hooked into the jre pluggin supplied with Sun's Java,
> but since I'm testing the current fedora 4 development and it seems that
> FC4 intends to do without the need for Sun's Java (I could be wrong)
> could someone tell me what package I'm supposed to install to get a JRE
> for firefox (and any other steps I might need to perform).
>

Hi Rodd,

You'll still need to install a Java Runtime for Firefox, and the process
is the same as usual.   The GNU compiler has improved to a point where
many java programs can be compiled and run without needing a proprietary
runtime, and that is likely the chatter you've been hearing.   However,
it's not yet a general replacement for the proprietary JRE's.

Cheers,
Sean