ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24

[Frank Altpeter]

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

From: Frank Altpeter <frank at altpeter.de>
To: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret at scotth.emsphone.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:31:28 +0200

 Hi there,
 
 > > 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.  
 
 Can't check this any further since i'm now using Firefox 1.5 in
 conjunction with diablo-jdk-1.5 which works fine so far.
 
 
 Tìoraidh an-dràsda,
 
 	Frank Altpeter
 
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