ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24

Scott T. Hildreth shildret at scotth.emsphone.com
Tue Feb 21 14:21:30 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:39 +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:13 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Take it up with the Firefox authors or Sun.  There is nothing that we as
> >>> port maintainers can do.
> >>   Is this firefox only, does the java plugin work with Galeon,
> >> Mozilla, ...etc.?  I guess I don't visit many Java enabled sites
> >> since I haven't noticed it.  Do you have an example URL ?
> > 
> > www.map24.com will crash Firefox.  But according to Greg Lewis, the
> > interface in Firefox 1.5 changed, and this broke the JPI.  Maybe he will
> > be fixing the plug-in to work, of maybe this is something we have to
> > live with.
> 
> There is a workaround. We can force a dependency on mozilla for the 
> jdk15 port and then use the resulting plugin on firefox. This should be 
> essentially what Sun does and the reason the java plugin on Windows and 
> Linux still works on firefox 1.5. I have such a setup here and I've just 
> verified that www.map24.com works fine with firefox.
> 

  FireFox 1.5.0.1 - jdk1.5.0, I linked the /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  to the one in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0 and www.map24.com worked for me as well.  

                           Just confirming.
                                     STH


> The caveat is that you have to keep a mozilla package installed, even if 
> you have no other use for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Panagiotis
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