Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

> Andreas Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > 
> >>> Can I suggest
> >>>
> >>> - Making the sun plugin conflict with the classpath webplugin.
> >>> - Preferably don't install the classpath version at all, if you're
> >>> worried about completely free java go for java 7 it would be more
> >>> reliable than classpath.
> >> I had this problem too. This was on x86_64 however, but I installed 32-bit 
> >> firefox and sun java-plugin and had problems getting it to work until I 
> >> figured out that I must manually remove classpath-webplugin. I thought 
> >> classpath-webplugin was only installed by default on 64-bit installations, 
> >> but apparently it's also done on 32-bit - it doesn't do much good anywhere - 
> >> but on 32-bit it's extra problematic.
> >>
> >> I support Benji's proposed resolutions.
> > 
> > IMO it is a mistake to release a 64 bit firefox without a really (!) 
> > working java. Releasing a 32 bit firefox was much better in the older 
> > distros.
> > 
> 
> Anyone opened a bug to let the plugins conflict? IMHO that's mandatory.
> It makes absolutely no sense to have more than one plugin installed for
> one type since at least all Mozilla stuff behaves non-deterministic in
> choosing one :-(
> And I agree that not having a working Java plugin is almost as bad as
> not having a working Flash player (which should basically work maybe
> only with manual interaction with nspluginwrapper though).
> 
> So replacing Firefox with the 32bit version, removing
> classpath-webplugin and installing Sun's 32bit Java with plugin will be
> an FAQ :-(

I reopened 
 [Bug 264228] nspluginwrapper + java plugin problems
 [Bug 288750] Home bank issues with java+firefox on x86_64
to get a final decision. I know it's really late, but a 64bit system 
without a working firefox/java combination is a blocker in my eyes.


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 Andreas Vetter

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