Using Chrome, BankID and IcedTea

The reason why Sun / Oracle java is pivotal for me, is my banking service. They require a god awful java plugin to run, which is not cross platform (they developed it on a cross platform platform, but failed to be cross platform), it is also terrible unstable in Chrome. It simply fails to run, and continuously tells me to install Sun Java.

Anyway, there is a plugin for a specific implementation of BankID of one bank available in the Chrome app store (just click here), which apparently forces the plugin to trigger. I have not tried this at all, cause right now I have Firefox, and using a ppa for Oracle Java, but it is definitely worth taking a note of, as Oracle is continuing to mangle and strangle Java, and as I understand it, any redistributing of it right now is fairly complicated. I know Ubuntu is (have) removing it all together due to license changes, pretty sure other major distributions will do the same, and really, nothing will make me happier not having to remove and replace less applications on a new install. In other news, Minecraft runs on OpenJDK, which is my number two reason for having Java installed.