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   johnsuth@nospam.com.au to All   
   Re: Firefox 4.0 and SeaMonkey-2.1 Beta 3   
   19 Apr 11 07:28:17   
   
   Apr 2011 06:31:48 EST)   
   From: johnsuth@nospam.com.au   
      
   In <4dad13c4$0$31725$c3e8da3$c14f6927@news.astraweb.com>, Steve Wendt   
    writes:   
   >James J. Weinkam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Both of these readmes say that Java versions older than 1.5 will not   
   >> work. As far as I can tell, the only java on my system is 1.4.2,   
   >> installed by the eCS2.0 installer in g:\java142. Nevertheless, the new   
   >> releases of both Seamonkey and Firefox seem to work.   
   >   
   >To be clear - you don't need Java to run the browsers.  The intent of    
   >the readme file was to make it clear that the existing OS/2 browser    
   >plugins for Java no longer function.   
      
   I checked and found that FF4 fails to support IBM supplied Macaw.avi,   
   Rocket.mpg   
   and Clock.class.   
      
   It supports animated gif.   
      
   PmWFX supported all of these and printing without falling over, so what is the    
   benefit of FF4?   
      
      
      
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