Re: java 6 webstart plugins for firefox?

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:01 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I'm not sure, but my guess would be that there's no MIME-type mapping
which associates the javaws from your Java 6 with content of type
application/x-java-jnlp-file.

I guess not! But somewhere this mapping exists for Java 5.

Anyway, this cosmetic issue aside, is there still a *real* problem?

No.

However, I think cosmetic issues can sometimes be a symptom of a real
problem - in this case that Firefox is doing some secret, undocumented
mappings, and does not appear to offer any interface to create, remove
or correct such mappings.

The MIME Edit extension, by the way, does NOT correct the cosmetic
problem. I even *removed* the .jnlp entry using the extension, but
Firefox *still* had the Java 5 mapping! So whatever it is bypasses the
normal mechanism for defining helper applications.

Irritating.

Regards, K.

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