> In article <20100205091256.ga97...@misty.eyesbeyond.com> you write: > >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 <m...@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... > > Btw I meanwhile found a kind of `workaround' until we have a new sun jdk > or icedtea port: konqueror (both the kde3 and the kde4 versions) runs > java applets via a normal `java' executable (and apparently its own ipc > wrapper code), so it doesn't need a plugin. And this also means it > even works with openjdk7 (and linux-sun-jdk in a native browser), at > least it did for me doing a simple test on > http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html > after setting either JAVA_HOME or configuring a full path in > settings -> konqueror -> java and javascript -> path to java executable. > > All of these worked for me: > > zsh triton8% ll /usr/local/*/bin/java > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 95014 May 13 2008 > /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47308 Oct 11 10:40 > /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.6.0/bin/java* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 60214 Feb 13 06:15 /usr/local/openjdk7/bin/java* > zsh triton8% > > HTH, :) > Juergen
Another option is to install www/seamonkey2 which still uses a gecko version compatible with the plugins available on FreeBSD (diablo/sun). At least until it will get a new gecko version. Barbara _______________________________________________ freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gecko-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
