ports/90388: firefox + jdk14 crashing when opening map24

[Scott T. Hildreth]

The following reply was made to PR ports/90388; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret at scotth.emsphone.com>
To: Panagiotis Astithas <past at ebs.gr>
Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>, gnome at freebsd.org,
        Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,
        Frank Altpeter <frank at 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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 Scott T. Hildreth <shildret at scotth.emsphone.com>