ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24

[Panagiotis Astithas]

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:
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>>> 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 ?
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> 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.

The caveat is that you have to keep a mozilla package installed, even if 
you have no other use for it.

Cheers,

Panagiotis