[Bug 730] Calling URL with Firefox 4 / Chrome

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--- Comment #5 from Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com>  2011-05-27 16:15:05 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Hi there and thanks for your answer. I understand that IcedTea6 1.8 is not the
> new kid on the blog. However - a lot of people are not in the habit of updating
> their OS every other month. A lot of FC13s and 14s are still out there and I
> haven't been able to find any new icedtea version(s).
> 

I understand your concerns; please allow me to explain the issues. Every time
we do a new icedtea6 release (not icedtea-web release) we need to do extensive
testing, including running the TCK (which is required for the icedtea6 packages
to be called "Java"). This takes a huge amount of time and resources. Due to
lack of manpower, it is not feasible for us to make new releases often.

Because of this problem, the plugin/webstart were split off into the
IcedTea-Web project. This will allow us to release more often. It will also
allow us to keep updating older versions with bugfixes in a more timely manner.

F15 includes this new IcedTea-Web. We are thinking about adding it to F14 as
well after it gets a little bit more testing (it is brand new in some aspects
and we certainly dont want to break something that was working previously). As
for F13, it will be EOL'ed in a month, so I am not sure if there is enough time
to add the icedtea-web packages there.

The reason I ask you to test icedtea-web is because that's where most of these
fixes are first added. If a problem is already fixed there, it is much easier
for us to find the fix and backport it.


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