On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Few questions regarding our default offering:
>
> 1) Why is icedtea-web installed by default? I really don't think a java
> browser plugin is something we want by default. Software makes it very easy
> to install it for those who need it.
>
Does it? Some banking sites mysteriously fails if there is no Java plugin
installed and I am not sure GNOME Software is tied in with Firefox to be
able to install it on demand when a website requests to load it.
Rahul
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GNOME Software is not (and, unfortunately, will probably never be)
integrated with Firefox in such way. However, if you search for Java
(assuming your metadata is new enough, this didn't land in Fedora yet) you
could just search for java, click on the java plugin item in the Software
page for Firefox / Epiphany, and you'd get Java installed.
From my point of view including a Java browser plugin by default is a
security risks, as most users tend to approve whatever pops up on their
screen, and malicious websites are known to abuse that.
If we do decide to include icedtea-web by default, this bug must be fixed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131248
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