Firefox/4.0pre SeaMonkey/2.1b3   
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   From: Steve Wendt    
      
   James J. Weinkam wrote:   
      
   > Thank you for your quick response. I'm still scratching my head though.   
   > I thought that a .jar file contained java routines.   
      
   JAR means "Java ARchive", but it's basically just a ZIP file, like Dave    
   said.   
      
   > The presence of omni.jar suggests to me that portions of Seamonkey   
   > and Firefox are written in Java. Is that correct?   
      
   No.   
      
   > Are you saying that the portions of Seamonkey and Firefox that rely   
   > on Java use a windows version of Java that needs odin?   
      
   They do not rely on Java.  However, Innotek Java 1.4.2, as well as the    
   new netlabs.org project for OpenJDK 1.6, both require Odin.  But neither    
   of those work in the browsers (never will again for the former, and may    
   eventually for the latter).   
      
   >> 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?   
      
   This was part of a decision made to thwart bad user agent detection; I    
   can't say I agree with all of it, but the general idea is sound:   
      
   http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/   
      
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