NoOp wrote:
@Craig: I won't have fedora or openSUSE back up until later today. I'll try to test then.@Jens: I did a bit of experimenting this morning and discovered (Ubuntu/Debian) that Mozilla Firefox (not the distro version) uses mozilla-javaplugin.so only, whereas SeaMonkey (not the distro version) does not & requires the system java also to be java-6-openjdk. For example if I set my system jre to 1.7.0_04: $ java -version java version "1.7.0_04" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_04-b20) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.0-b21, mixed mode, sharing) And set my mozilla-javaplugin.so to the same $ ls -al /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2012-06-07 11:59 /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so -> /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_04/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so Firefox (13) picks up & accepts 1.7.0_04, SeaMonkey does not. If I then set *only* mozilla-javaplugin.so to java-6-openjdk (leaving the system version set to 1.7.0_04): $ sudo update-alternatives --config mozilla-javaplugin.so There are 2 choices for the alternative mozilla-javaplugin.so (providing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ * 0 /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_04/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2000 auto mode 1 /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_04/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2000 manual mode 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so 1061 manual mode Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 2 update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so to provide /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so (mozilla-javaplugin.so) in manual mode. Firefox 13 recognizes the change immediately and now uses java-6-openjdk (again leaving the system version set to 1.7.0_04) - SeaMonkey does not. SeaMonkey *only* accepts java-6-openjdk if I set the system *and* the mozilla-javaplugin.so to java-6-openjdk: ==== $ sudo update-alternatives --config java There are 4 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ * 0 /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_04/bin/java 2000 auto mode 1 /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_04/bin/java 2000 manual mode 2 /usr/bin/gij-4.4 1044 manual mode 3 /usr/bin/gij-4.5 1045 manual mode 4 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 manual mode Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 4 update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in manual mode. ==== $ ls -al /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 2012-06-07 12:03 /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so about:plugins (SeaMonkey): IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.1 (1.1.1-0ubuntu1~11.04.2)) File: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so Note: you do not have to shutdown & restart SeaMonkey to test; just clear all your caches & reload the about:plugins page. So something is definately odd when Firefox ignores the system java/jre and relies only on the mozilla-javaplugin.so symlink. But SeaMonkey requires both (system and mozilla-javaplugin.so).
That sure does seem like a lot of trouble for something that should (and always did in the past) work "out of the box".
I'm still a bit confused... Is this an issue for which we will likely see a fix in the future regardless of whether or not it is a Java issue or a SeaMonkey issue?
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