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   Dave Yeo to All   
   Re: Firefox 4.0 and SeaMonkey-2.1 Beta 3   
   19 Apr 11 15:28:58   
   
   Firefox/4.0.1pre SeaMonkey/2.1pre   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   James J. Weinkam wrote:   
   >> 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.   
      
   Well as Steve said, that is where the name came from originally.   
   Dave   
      
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