ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

The following reply was made to PR ports/90388; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
To: Frank Altpeter <frank at altpeter.de>
Cc: gnome at FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:13:04 -0500

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 Frank Altpeter wrote:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote on 2006-02-01 at 18:39:15 CET:
 >> Synopsis: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24
 >>
 >> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 >> State-Changed-By: marcus
 >> State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 1 17:38:10 UTC 2006
 >> State-Changed-Why: 
 >> Firefox 1.5 changed the plug-in interface which breaks compatibility with
 >> Java 1.4 and 1.5.
 >>
 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90388
 >>
 > 
 > Uhm... that's it? No solution? No workaround?
 > Just "it is like it is, live with it" ?
 > What should i do? Start using firefox-1.0 again? Switch over to MS
 > Internet Explorer? Stop surfing java enabled sites?
 > If firefox 1.5 changed the plug-in interface, how come that the windows
 > version of firefox does run fine with java 1.4 ?
 
 Take it up with the Firefox authors or Sun.  There is nothing that we as
 port maintainers can do.
 
 Joe
 
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 Joe Marcus Clarke
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