On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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Anyway, so here comes the upgrade to firefox 3. On my test system, Java was working with 1.5, and now it is not. So I anticipate the same event here. I need these Java apps working, so before I upgrade, I would like to know what others have found out and recommend.
Early on I installed firefox-3.0rc2.tar.bz2 (after having discarded the 3b5 beta now included in the RH/CentOS 5.2 my home directory and started successfully running with it. I have not yet replaced the 3b5 system-wide (not broken, don't fix).
I run a java application. The java console show warnings and 8 errors, but it WFM.
# rpm -qa|grep jre jre-1.6.0_05-fcs
# rpm -qa|grep java java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 tzdata-java-2007k-2.el5.centos
I had tried the openjdk CentOS posted a couple months back, reported it did not WFM, never heard anything about it, so I abandoned testing it. Got the real jre from Sun's site.
With this combination, my apps are working good enough, although I would prefer no warnings or errors in the java console.
I would suggest getting the released FF from the mozilla site, install alongside the CentOS released one (allowing an upgrade to prod FF when RH releases it) and test that setup.
I would like to use all the CentOS released, but the beta FF has too many warts, the test of the openjdk I did not only failed but also got no activity when I reported it did not work for me and I had no time/interest in pushing hard since I'm really ignorant on all that stuff.
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HTH