Firefox 4 - Beta

[Denny Lin]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0700, Patrick Powell wrote:
> On 03/19/11 00:02, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:07:28 -0600
> >"Edwin L. Culp W."<edwinlculp at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >>I'm assuming that we are close to having firefox4 in the tree as
> >>firefox.   It can't be too soon.  I have not found any drawbacks to it
> >>in the couple weeks of testing.
> >>
> >Unfortunately, it still goes crazy like the older versions and eats 100%
> >of the CPU for no apparent reason.
> >
> >Otherwise it's no worse than 3.x was.
> >
> Ummm... does it support Java?  There were some issues with newer versions
> of firefox requiring newer versions of the JDK which have not been 
> ported/updated.

Use java/openjdk6:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-JAVA-PLUGIN
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010

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Denny Lin