Firefox/4.0pre SeaMonkey/2.1b3   
   From: "James J. Weinkam"    
      
   Rich Walsh wrote:   
   > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:11:01 UTC, "James J. Weinkam"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Both of these readmes say that Java versions older than 1.5 will not work.   
   >   
   > That line was a hack.  I knew that no generally available Java for OS/2   
   > would work but that the new version now under development might work   
   > someday.  However, I didn't know what version that is nor when a plugin   
   > for it might be available.  So, I chose an arbitrary version number as   
   > a cutoff.   
   >   
   >> I personally make no direct use of java and do not know what installed   
   >> software, if any, requires it.   
   >   
   > Nor do I.  All I know is that there's a Netlabs project and that it uses   
   > Odin to run a Win version of Java.   
      
   Thank you for your quick response. I'm still scratching my head though. I   
   thought that a .jar file    
   contained java routines. The presence of omni.jar suggests to me that portions   
   of Seamonkey and    
   Firefox are written in Java. Is that correct? Are you saying that the portions   
   of Seamonkey and    
   Firefox that rely on Java use a windows version of Java that needs odin? I do   
   happen to have odin    
   installed because I use it to run GPSU, but its not listed in the requirements   
   for either Seamonkey    
   or Firefox.   
      
      
      
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   >> Also just out of curiosity, is it intentional that except for   
   >> chrome.manifest and omni.jar, all of the files in both the Seamonkey   
   >> and Firefox releases have the identical time stamp -   
   >> 2010/01/01-00:00:00 for Seamonkey and 2011/04/11-23:30:00 for Firefox?   
   >   
   > Yes and no.  The packager is supposed to timestamp all of the files in   
   > omni.jar as 2010/01/01-00:00:00.   
      
      
   Why a date that is almost sixteen months in the past?   
      
     However, it timestamps every file in   
   > the distro.  Apparently, Walter changed the timestamp for FF but not SM.   
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