Comment 17 for bug 104512

JD, you might not have to wait for Java 1.7 if you are willing to take a chance on a beta. See Build b28 at http://download.java.net/jdk6/. They seem to have covered AMD64 in beta. Unfortunately for me, I have an Intel X64 but I might try it anyways for laughs.

The un-paid OpenJDK folks are working hard to come up with a stable and accurate clone of Sun's JRE and Plugin. Having put my own time into open source projects, I can sympathize with them. Not being commercial, they have limited testing resources -or- you could say that we are their testing resources.

On the other hand, I know that it is frustrating to wait when you are trying to be commercial-free ... as much as possible. I remember that the 32-bit Sun Java plugin install into the 32-bit Firefox browser was well-integrated in Ubuntu 7.10....just as automated as in Windows although in a different way (E.g. Synaptic). That was a super job and easy to document/explain.

Unfortunately, icedtea-gcjwebplugin doesn't work 100% yet as a number of folks have pointed out. E.g. Try a game at http://www.pogo.com.

Things could be worse. I could be at work today using Windoze, OutLuck, and Internet Exploder.

-Richard