Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:32:43 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org, java@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4B6BE5BB.9090700@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100205091256.GA97892@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> <20100204204837.GA36977@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100205072815.GA97312@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <4B6BD685.4050901@bsdforen.de> <20100205091256.GA97892@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > 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? Yes, I'm using the JDK. # ll /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 68 4 Feb 10:17 /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/amd64/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so What does your about:plugins page say? > >> 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... There's a project named IcedTea that builds OpenJDK with the plugin (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/icedtea/).
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