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Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 16, 2011 16:26 UTC (Fri) by avtechmjc (subscriber, #50477)
In reply to: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin by yodermk
Parent article: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Yes, and the OpenJDK / Sun Java differences always seem to involves impossible-to-reproduce-elsewhere problems...

Like Sun Java is 100x faster pulling up rows from postgresql in LibreOffice's database app than if OpenJDK is used. But I can't file a bug report, because no one can be expected to replicate my server/client system.

Or accessing fancy encrypted government web sites, where you can't possibly share logins...

It's frustrating when you can't provide useful bug reports!

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Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 16, 2011 16:45 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

And sometimes it is not even a difference between OpenJDK and Sun Java, but only a difference in their packaging.

See for instance https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741821, where the lack of an empty hidden directory on /etc breaks an online banking applet.

Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 18, 2011 0:03 UTC (Sun) by rbrito (subscriber, #66188) [Link]

Thanks for the hint. This is very important for those that have to access Banco do Brasil's website.

Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 18, 2011 23:52 UTC (Sun) by ceplm (guest, #41334) [Link]

But I would add (and yes, I am a Red Hat employee, although I have personally nothing to do with OpenJDK maintaining) that this bug shows we are trying hard to make OpenJDK really working. Glad to see it.