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|    James J. Weinkam to All    |
|    Re: Firefox 4.0 and SeaMonkey-2.1 Beta 3    |
|    19 Apr 11 13:00:09    |
   
   Firefox/4.0pre SeaMonkey/2.1b3   
   From: "James J. Weinkam"    
      
   Dave Yeo wrote:   
   > 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. 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.   
   >   
   > Jar files are just another name for zip files. Mozilla uses compressed file   
   systems for some data,   
   > these are jar files. No relation to Java.   
   > Dave   
      
   You learn something new every day. Every time I have come across a jar file it   
   had something to do    
   with jave so I had assumed that jar stood for java archive. Thanks.   
      
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