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James Le Cuirot
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* Bump to version 1.6.1 (#530860) * Respect java-config's VM selection (#538144, #552640) * Use new eselect-java that looks for itweb-javaws (#504678) * Fix USE=doc under stricter Java 8 (#558718) * Don't call hg because .hg directory is missing (#528268) This version no longer relies on eselect java-nsplugin as it installs the plugin directly under /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. It blocks the Oracle plugins because Firefox cannot disable them individually. Package-Manager: portage-2.2.26
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Browser plugin
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The IcedTea browser plugin (NPPlugin) is now made immediately
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available to supporting browsers without the need for eselect. Note
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that Chromium-based browsers no longer support NPAPI-based plugins
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since the code was removed in September 2015. The list of supporting
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browsers is shrinking but still includes Firefox as of version 46.
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JVM selection
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By default, IcedTea's browser plugin and Web Start uses the JVM
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selected via eselect or the GENTOO_VM environment variable. Note that
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this doesn't have to be an IcedTea JVM. An Oracle JVM will also
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work. The choice can be overridden using the itweb-settings
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program. Simply blank out the field to restore the default behaviour.
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Coexistence with Oracle's plugin
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The IcedTea browser plugin can no longer be installed alongside
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Oracle's plugin. This used to be possible thanks to eselect
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java-nsplugin but this was removed in an effort to simplify things. No
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one is likely to need both, especially with plugins being all but
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outlawed these days. To avoid any blockers, simply enable the nsplugin
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USE flag on icedtea-web or the Oracle packages, but not both.
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If you're wondering why we don't just leave plugin selection to the
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browser, it's because Firefox (and probably others) only allows you to
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disable all the Java plugins together, not individually.
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Coexistence with Oracle's Web Start
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/usr/bin/javaws, the executable used to launch JNLP files from a
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browser, will always use IcedTea's implementation over Oracle's when
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icedtea-web is installed, regardless of which JVM has been
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selected. This is primarily for consistency with the browser
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plugin. If you want to use Oracle's implementation then simply
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uninstall icedtea-web.
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32-bit plugin on 64-bit systems
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This is no longer supported as the 64-bit plugin can launch a 32-bit
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JVM. Other reasons for running a 32-bit browser on a 64-bit system
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have long passed.
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32-bit JVM on 64-bit systems
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The emul-linux-x86-java package was removed in 2015 with the migration
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to full multilib. icedtea-bin now provides this feature via the
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multilib USE flag. Once installed, using the 32-bit variant is simply
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a case of selecting that VM as described above.
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