icedtea6-plugin not compatible with Firefox 3.6+

While the code is in there, it only works if it's built against xulrunner-1.9.2 or higher which won't happen till Lucid. So, therefore, this is Triaged until we get xulrunner-1.9.2 into Lucid.

Hmm... Also showing this installed:

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/etc/gre.d
/etc/gre.d/1.9.2.system.conf
/etc/xulrunner-1.9.2
/etc/xulrunner-1.9.2/system-greprefs.js
/usr
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/usr/bin/xpcshell-1.9.2
/usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.2
/usr/lib
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/.autoreg
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/BadPlugin
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/GoodPlugin
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/LICENSE
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/README.txt
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/classic.jar
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/classic.manifest
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/comm.jar
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/comm.manifest
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/en-US.jar
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/en-US.manifest
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/icons
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/icons/default
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/pippki.jar
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/pippki.manifest
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/chrome/toolkit.jar
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/components
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/components/components.list
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/components/libdbusservice.so
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/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/components/nsUrlClassifierLib.js
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/c...

As you can see, I have xul-runner-1.9.2 installed, but Java is flawed in Lucid with icedtea6. The screenshot is what plugins are currently installed.

I also have a sun-java-6 plugin for Mozilla installed. I recall reading that there should be only one version installed at a time.

about:plugins shows the plugins in current lucid; works for me

I removed the java plugin, but it didn't make any difference. Here's my About:plugins file.

Still a problem after today's IcedTea and JRE updates. The particular site in question is https://blrscr3.egs-seg.gc.ca - a Canada Revenue Agency portal that lets me do things online. It works just fine in Karmic.

It recognizes Java as being installed, but keeps returning to the username/password page rather than continuing to the next login stage.

I also noticed that Java continued to run; using most of the processor power after the site was closed.

the URL https://blrscr3.egs-seg.gc.ca/ just points to an error site

https://blrscr3.egs-seg.gc.ca/TruePassApp/TruePassFrameset.jsp?visibleFrameURL=https://blrscr3.egs-seg.gc.ca/lcf_app_server/lcf?epass=

...is the actual login page, although without an Epass you can't duplicate the problem. Since the details within are extremely private, I won't share mine.

Just fixed mine. I just removed all icedtea files.

I wouldn't call that a fix. It just means you've just disabled Java on sites that require it.

After running the latest updates it seems to have solved some of the problems. I can use some Java applications now, but not all...

Sometimes it still leaves one of the CPU cores running on 100% when loading some Java app fails, even after closing Firefox. Have to kill the java-process manually.

Still a problem; both partitions now running Lucid. I won't update my desktop (Karmic) until this is resolved.

Can a regression to FF 3.5 be made available?

icedtea6-plugin is now built against xulrunner-1.9.2 for jaunty, karmic, lucid and maverick. firefox was updated to 3.6 for these releases.

I removed sun-java-6 plugin and installed the icedtea6 version again. This time, it crashed Firefox (twice) trying to login to the CRA My Account section.

I too removed sun-java-6 plugin and installed the icedtea6 version again.It had the old bugs with it.& I cannot find sun java in repos to install in maverick..????

Go to this link and follow the instructions - the sun-java-6 plugin will be available again.

https://launchpad.net/~patrick-rypalla/+archive/real-java6

Still no maverick in that.I added lucid's line from https://launchpad.net/~patrick-rypalla/+archive/real-java6 to sources and got it.Thanx for quick reply..

There's no need for this. sun-java6 was moved to the partner repo.
Partner uploads generally happen later in the cycle. You can enable
lucid partner repo to get Sun Java. No need to use a PPA.

On 07/27/2010 12:27 PM, Christopher wrote:
> Go to this link and follow the instructions - the sun-java-6 plugin
> will be available again.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~patrick-rypalla/+archive/real-java6
>

las was reporting that it wasn't available in Maverick.

bug #588589

On 07/27/2010 01:53 PM, Christopher wrote:
> las was reporting that it wasn't available in Maverick.
>
>