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Re: Removal of "firefox3-bin" package



On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >Are there any objections to remove the package? It can always be
> >re-added if the situation changes.
> 
> No objections.
> 
> IIRC *the* reason for the firefox-bin package(s) was the flash
> plugin.  is that still needed with the nspluginwrapper package? I
> admit I haven't tried this in a while (and can't do so easily).


The Java plugin doesn't work with nspluginwrapper (it uses another
API), and isn't (easily) available on all platforms.

        Geert




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