On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:03:23PM -0500, Daniel Dickman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > I think the Firefox 3.5 comments are probably because that version used to > > be needed for Java support before we had icedtea-web. So probably we need > > to talk about installing that and remove the text about symlinking Firefox. > > Otherwise I agree with all you said. > > > > nice to have a concurring second opinion ;-) thanks. > > firefox is actually for the help system and not related to java > plugins so I don't think any need to mention icedtea-web. Here's the > full text from the README a bit further up: > > "NetBeans relies on the presence of a firefox binary for access to the > online help system. Firefox is not set up as a runtime dependency > as this dependency is optional." > > You should be able to use any web browser I think... although I > haven't actually loaded up the new version to see what changes it now > has to the help system.
Yeah, if possible make it use xdg-open instead of having ffx hardcoded.. Landry
