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java applets don't work on firefox 4.0beta

Bug #605417 reported by Tom Wolf on 2010-07-14

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Mozilla PPA Bugs	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

In Linux, one normally adds java plugin capability by establishing a symbolic link from the firefox "plugins" directory to the JRE shared library:

$ cd <Firefox>/plugins
$ ln -s <JRE>/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so .

But the 4.0 beta doesn't have a "plugins" directory - but all the online help documentation on how to get java applets working in Linux still refers to that directory.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 14 09:11:49 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
firefox-gnome-support 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
firefox-branding 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

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Tom Wolf (tjwolf) wrote on 2010-07-14:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-07-16:

#2

Marking Ubuntu task invalid since this is a prerelease version.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-08-05:

#3

I'm not sure I understand the problem here. FF4.0 has a plugins directory (it's a symlink to ../firefox-addons/plugins). Could you describe your issues in a bit more detail please?

Changed in ubuntu-mozilla-ppa-bugs:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Tom Wolf (tjwolf) wrote on 2010-08-05:

#4

When I downloaded the firefox 4.0b1.tar, there was no "plugins" directory. - as a matter of fact, there's was no "firefox-addons/" either. I can send you the tar file if you wish. Perhaps you're looking at a newer build?

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-08-05:

#5

So you're not actually using the packages we are supplying, but instead downloading the Mozilla distributed tar file? If that's the case, then there's not a bug in our package. The Ubuntu bug tracker is not the right place to ask for help to install applications you've downloaded (it is for reporting bugs in Ubuntu)

Changed in ubuntu-mozilla-ppa-bugs:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Tom Wolf (tjwolf) wrote on 2010-08-05:

#6

Sorry about that - when I originally filed the bug, I thought I had done it from the Firefox web site. When Micah made the bug invalid I realized that I had filed to the wrong forum....then u asked your question and I assumed (because I didn't look carefully) that this question was coming from Firefox developers since I had subsequently filed a bug there as well.

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