[Mageia-discuss] Jre and Firefox

Phil phil_lor at bigpond.com
Wed Aug 29 08:23:56 CEST 2012


On 28/08/12 22:48, TJ wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 07:44 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>>
>> BTW, a 0-day security flaw has just been announced for Java 1.7, and
>> people are recommending that Java in browsers be disabled until Oracle
>> can issue a patch (perhaps not until October 16).
>>
> IIRC, Mageia's own Oracle Java won't be updated beyond version 1.6.x
> because of licensing changes. Mageia is recommending the open source
> icedtea-web plugin instead.
>

Thanks everyone for your replies,

The simplest solution, and it works, was to install the iced tea plug-in.

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Regards,
Phil


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