Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:30:09 GMT From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24 Message-ID: <200602212230.k1LMU93b043478@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com>
To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, gnome@freebsd.org,
Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>
Subject: Re: ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:20:37 -0600
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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