Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 01:12:56 -0800 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100205091256.GA97892@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6BD685.4050901@bsdforen.de> References: <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> <20100204204837.GA36977@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100205072815.GA97312@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <4B6BD685.4050901@bsdforen.de>
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:27:49AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 07:48:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On 2010-Feb-04 01:19:33 +0100, Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>> The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain > >>> addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all > >>> problems are solved and we can start a CFT. > >> Thanks to all for your efforts. > >> > >>> weekend. We should also note that the java plugin currently > >>> does not work with 3.6. > >> This is a blocker for me. What is involved in building a > >> java plugin to suit the new FF36 interface? Please let me know > >> if there's anything I can do to assist the effort. > > > > Well, I don't believe the java plugin works with Firefox 3.5, so this isn't > > a new development. > > You are mistaken here, the Java plugin works fine with firefox35. Hmm. So I've got the plugin installed from the current diablo-jre16 port and firefox35 doesn't find it. What does your set up look like? For me its: > ls -l /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 63 Nov 8 10:50 /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/diablo-jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so Are you using it from jdk16 perhaps? > A real annoyance is that the OpenJDKs don't build the plugin, you > need one of the SUN or Diablo JDKs. They don't build it because Sun doesn't include it... -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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