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On 05/31/2011 11:15 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> Do you have an insight why Java JRE is not shipped with
> the browser itself?

License issues is the biggest one. There is also the fact that it 
defeats the purpose of the plugin architecture: it's not like Firefox 
bundles Flash, the other You Need This plugin.

Actually, as an aside, Firefox used to have a deep integration via OJI, 
and until Firefox 3 or so, it was theoretically possible to write your 
extension in Java (JavaXPCOM has since been broken, I think). Nowadays, 
Mozilla-Java integration is mostly limited to the standard NPAPI (i.e., 
plugin) architecture capabilities.

> The browser size will be a little larger, but so what? internet
> speed is fast these days, who cares if it is 18 MB larger now.

Judging from wget, the size of Firefox right now is 12 MB. While 
download size is not a huge priority, a 150% regression is definitely 
not going to be accepted. And keep in mind that not everyone has access 
to high-speed internet; e.g., Africa.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth