From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question.
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:21:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485A6B55.3050308@ercbroadband.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d257c3560806181355y1017fbc1x310284c181adc83a@mail.gmail.com>
Beso wrote:
> 2008/6/18 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
>
>> Beso wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/6/18 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
>>>
>>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>>> So, how's it working? Anyone emerged it yet?
>>>>>> The binary is working ... the mirrors are hosed on the source version,
>>>>>>
>>>>> though. They have the binary version and the checksums don't match.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to get good source. It built and it absolutely hauls the
>>>> proverbial ass.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> have you tried it with the new gnash plugin and the new icedtea (the free
>>> openjdk java plugin that seems to be compatible at 90% with java6 ) on
>>> amd64
>>> arch?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> No I haven't. How is it?
>>
>>
> well, icedtea, from the latest news in my possession has merged with openjdk
> ad java plugin and it supports nearly 90% of java around (this means that
> there's no need for a 32bit wrapper for java with firefox).
> gnash is now fully compatible with flash v7 and has about 50% of flash 8 and
> 9 serie. now with the opening of the flash format specifications gnash
> should progress much faster than it was before. for example i've read that
> with firefox 2 with gnash and java youtube (usually a quite bad site for
> flash players and which has also some java code included, for my knowledge)
> is playing well (more than 85% of videos work well and the remnants just
> need to use the gnash controls to work).
> but as i've said, i haven't tried it yet so i don't know if these assertions
> are reallly true.
>
>
Well, I was going to try icedtea just to see how it worked, and I wanted
to not have to spend a lot of time installing/configuring. There's a
HOWTO page for icedtea, but the libre_java_overlay mentioned isn't there
now. Is there another way to automate the install?
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 12:14 [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question Mark Haney
2008-06-18 12:24 ` Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan
2008-06-18 13:09 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2008-06-18 14:06 ` Mark Haney
2008-06-18 15:40 ` Beso
2008-06-18 15:43 ` Mark Haney
2008-06-18 20:55 ` Beso
2008-06-19 2:04 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2008-06-19 7:39 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-06-19 16:55 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Beso
2008-06-19 14:21 ` Mark Haney [this message]
2008-06-19 14:55 ` anorexicsumo
2008-06-20 4:32 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-07-01 16:50 ` Andy Wang
2009-06-23 21:11 ` [gentoo-amd64] UNSUBSCRIBE Nicolas Merline
2008-06-19 2:57 ` [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2008-06-18 21:06 ` B Vance
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