[Bug 94293] Re: (Feisty) Firefox requires manual JRE install

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:58:40AM -0000, Christian Convey wrote:
> OK, so the Ubuntu user experience has a problem.  The version of
> Firefox installed in Ubuntu lead the user (me) through a series of
> steps that we know don't work on Ubuntu, and there was no direction
> given for what the Ubuntu-blessed way is to get JRE installed.
> 
> I have no problem with installing jre via apt rather than Firefox's
> installer.  My real issue is that from a usability perspective,
> Firefox takes the user down a fruitless path to resolve the issue.
> 
> My concern is that we just shrug our shoulders, call this an upstream
> problem, and close the bug, then we're basically punting on Ubuntu's
> goal of being really easy to use for everyone.
> 

So what can we do? Adobe did it right once (somewhere for 7.x flash)
... now they fail again to provide an automatic install package.

I think noone really has a communication channel adobe and I don't
think its really better for sun.

And finally, the probability that this has already been reported with
them (hundred/thousand times?) is close to 100%.

If you want to triage this bug with sun and adobe, feel free to reopen
assign to you.

I am open to new thoughts, but I currently don't see how we can tackle
this.

 - Alexander

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(Feisty) Firefox requires manual JRE install
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