epiphany-webkit ignores icedtea6-plugin

[Martin Reiche]

Binary package hint: epiphany-webkit

It seems that the icedtea6-plugin will be ignored by epiphany-webkit in Karmic with system complete up2date.

Sites to test:
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browsercheck/tests/java.shtml

With firefox it does work well.

Flash (via gnash) does work also so it does not look like there are problems with plugins in general.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

apt-cache policy epiphany-webkit
epiphany-webkit:
  Installiert: 2.27.92-2ubuntu2
  Kandidat: 2.27.92-2ubuntu2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.27.92-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 28 10:39:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: epiphany-webkit 2.27.92-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: epiphany-webkit
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Clara (claracagigal)]

I would like to add that epiphany webkit 2.28.0 also ignores java-6 -sun jre plugin in order to show applets in the browser. I have enabled activate java and activate java script but epiphany doesn't show any applet. Firefox 3.5 shows applets in karmic so, it is not the java jre but perhaps a lost link from epiphany to the java file?

[arisaka7.7x58 (arisaka7-7x58)]

As far as I can tell the sun-java6 plugin, totem-mozilla plugin, mozplugger, acroread, mozilla-openoffice plugins all do not work in epiphany-webkit 2.28 on karmic.