16 Jun
2013
16 Jun
'13
9:03 p.m.
On 06/16/2013 08:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 06/16/2013 05:49 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
I noticed that icedtea-web (the Java browser plugin implementation for OpenJDK) is installed and enabled by default (as part of the "GNOME Desktop" set). This is a bit surprising, considering that the rest of the world tries to move away from Java browser plugin technology (and even browser plugin technology in general).
FWIW, we haven't quite moved away from it just yet. A number of major banking sites using a java applet as the primary interface.
Indeed, and I'm not proposing to remove it from the repositories (yet).
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team