Re: [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question.

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

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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