Comments on: New Java Plugin

By: Mark S

Mark S — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:28:53 +0000

Ah.
I suppose then the next question is: Does MRJ suffer the same problems as the old JVM or does it have the advantages windows/linux users will be gaining?
Will anything change for the mac implementation now that Firefox 3 is doing things differently?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:43:10 +0000

Mark S: Mac doesn’t use Sun Java, it uses MRJ from Apple and a plugin specially designed to hook into that. I believe the plugin is bundled from:

http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/

By: Mark S

Mark S — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:37:29 +0000

Any news on if this will be landing on the Mac ever?
Henrik’s entry made mention of the major OSes minus the mac.

By: K. Ralho

K. Ralho — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:53:15 +0000

64bit plugin, please?

By: Envy and Java updates « I’m Just an Avatar

Envy and Java updates « I’m Just an Avatar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:26:43 +0000

[...] to help test it you can get more info and links from posts on Planet Mozilla from Henrik Gemal and Robert Accetura, as well as in the release [...]

By: glandium

glandium — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:08:21 +0000

Improved reliability. The JVM running the applet is isolated from the web browser at the operating system level.

It would be nice if that were true for all plugins