[hardy] Java plugin not registered in Firefox 2

[Sebastian Kapfer]

Java plugin is not registered with Firefox 2, only Firefox 3.

Solution: In sun-java6-plugin.postinst script, extend the

browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons"

variable by "firefox" or "firefox-addons".

whichever is right.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

why is this needed? we don't have firefox in hardy anymore.

[Sebastian Kapfer (caci)]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/firefox-2

[Ronald Hummelink (ronald-hummelink)]

Firefox-2 is part of hardy alright, its just not installed by default. I for one have 2 options. Either plugins will work reasonable soon on hardy's firefox-2, or i'll downgrade to Gutsy, simple as that.

So, if I start firefox-2 on a fresh hardy install, and hit a page that needs Java, it pops up the prompt giving me a choise to install one of the 4 java plugins. Java gets installed... and is not registered with FF2, only with FF3B5.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Sebastian, thank you for the report and providing information as to how to fix the package. How does one go about fixing this until an updated package gets uploaded?

[Sebastian Kapfer (caci)]

Edit the shell script /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-plugin.postinst; extend the variable "browser_dirs" to read

browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons firefox"

And run the resulting shell script. You will have to restart Firefox 2 for the changes to take effect IIRC.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Sebastian, thank you. Yes, that did the trick. Nominating for Hardy.

[SV (sv22342)]

I had the same problem with firefox-2. sun-java6-plugin packages is installed, but there is no symlink in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins for java plugin (/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so), so I created it and everything is fine now, but this bug still appears in 8.04 official release, so let's hope it will be resolved quite fast.

[vbbasti (vbbasti-googlemail)]

This fault isn't only related on the java plugin. The only registered plugins that appears in the about:plugin page in firefox 2 is the flash plugin, after installing it.

[Sebastian Kapfer (caci)]

vbbasti: Please file separate bugs for those plugins. This bug is specifically about the Java plugin having dropped firefox2 from its postinst script. Other plugins will have a different mechanism of registering with the browser.

[Patricio (patricio-stwing)]

Sorry! I am new, I understand the concepts but what do I have to do after fixing sun-java6-plugin.postinst
i.e. how do I ran the script?
How do I know if should use "firefox" or "firefox-addons"?
Thanks!
Patricio

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Patricio,

edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-plugin.postinst and change browser_dirs in line 6 as browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons firefox-addons". Then do "sudo dpkg-reconfigure sun-java6-plugin. Then restart your firefox-2 browser.

about:plugins URL in firefox-2 should display that Java 6 plugin is registered.

[Patricio (patricio-stwing)]

Matti,
It worked! I used "browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons firefox" Java is up with hardy, firefox 2, AMD32 bits.
Patricio
patricio@patricio-desktop:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_06"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode, sharing)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package icedtea-gcjwebplugin - 1.0-1ubuntu1

---------------
icedtea-gcjwebplugin (1.0-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Don't build the transitional icedtea packages anymore.
  * Register for browsers based on firefox2. LP: #211309.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 15 May 2008 11:04:16 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Subscribed ~motu-sru to get their ack.

Why did you add the dependency to xul? If this package works for firefox 2 as well, it doesn't seem to be needed?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Martin Pitt schrieb:
> Why did you add the dependency to xul? If this package works for firefox
> 2 as well, it doesn't seem to be needed?

it is linked against libxul.so

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

AK, but it looks like the version number may need adjustment.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into hardy-proposed, please test and give feedback here.

[nyékhelyi gábor (n0gabor)]

hardy-proposed: doesn't work with firefox-2

[nyékhelyi gábor (n0gabor)]

Neither the icedtea plugin nor the sun-java6-plugin

[Philippe Coval (rzr)]

I confirm this bug, this is annoying for most french user who have to do their tax declaration on the web,

How it worked for me :

sudo aptitude install firefox-2 sun-java-plugin

cat | patch -p0 << EOF
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-plugin.postinst.orig 2008-05-25 13:00:19.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-plugin.postinst 2008-05-25 13:00:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

 priority=53
-browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons"
+browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons firefox"
 PLUGIN=libjavaplugin_oji.so
 PLUGINPTH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/$PLUGIN
EOF

sudo dpkg-reconfigure sun-java5-plugin

firefox-2 about:plugins

Good luck with other configurations

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Verification failed, giving back to Matthias for further fixing.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

the icedtea-gcjwebplugin version 1.0-0ubuntu6 currently in hardy-proposed includes a regression, bug #231748, which must be resolved in any SRU for this package. (I believe the fix is already in progress).

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

1.0-0ubuntu7 has been accepted into -proposed, so this is back to needing testing.

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

I recreated the bug with icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-0ubuntu5. After upgrading to 1.0-0ubuntu7, it didn't fix the issue at first (I got the following error: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory). After installing libxul-dev it worked and fixed the issue for me.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thank you for testing. This indicates a bug, it is definitively wrong to link against something that is only provided by a -dev package, and also it is wrong that the plugin links to xulrunner in the first place (it is not needed for firefox-2).

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in sun-java5 1.5.0-16 in intrepid

[Joel Ebel (jbebel)]

Given bug 258624 that identifies that openjdk-6 isn't compiled for firefox-2 it seems this bug isn't valid for icedtea-gcjwebplugin anymore. Sad since there is now now 64 bit java plugin that works in firefox 2.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".