At Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:35:35 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 1/28/2010 11:14 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
This is all documented on the Wiki for anyone who cares to search:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox
[rhetorical] Why does this mailing list insist on reinventing the wheel rather than perform a simple search of existing documentation first?
You sort-of expect end users to do that. A more relevant question is why is it shipped broken in the first place? Is it just Red Hat trying to maintain their reputation for making java as hard to use as possible?
Java is an odd case: *Sun* has weird / non-compatible license issues, so RH (or CentOS) cannot just re-distribute the Sun JDK and appearently the openjdk does not include a web browser plug in (nothing RH or CentOS can do about that).
And it appears that Sun decided to change the name and location of the 64-bit plugin, which is what threw me, esp. since in the *32-bit* Sun JDK (6u18) the *old* plugin library is just where I expected it to be. Why did Sun do *that*? You would have thought that they would have included a README there to explain what they did.