Description of problem: After installing Fedora 8 from live media java plugin is not installed by default. Firefox plugin finder service fails to find a java plugin but presents a "Manual Installation" link which takes you to http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp and offers to install non-open source Sun Java 6 run time environment. Instead Firefox should install java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin from Fedora's yum repository. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 8 from live media. 2. Go to a site with java plugin. 3. Click on "Install Missing Plugins..." Actual results: Firefox fails to find java plugins and suggest one to install Sun's non-open source Java 6 plugin. Expected results: Firefox should find the latest java-1.7 icedtea java plugin from Fedora's repository and offer to install it.
Created attachment 272171 [details] Firefox plugin finder service.
this bug is still present in firefox-3.0-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9.i386
Created attachment 293060 [details] failure to install icedtea plugin
The icedtea plugin really should simply be installed by default.... While that's not exactly what this bug is about, it is going to have to do until Fedora implements its own plugin finding service (which needs to be done on our website, not in firefox the package). Matej: please make sure a bug is filed to get icedtea's plugin installed by default it isn't. Also file a generic bug about implementing our own plugin finder service and mark this dependent on it. This isn't going to happen for F8 or F9 though, and any real solution would have to be more generic, so marking this WONTFIX and matej will post two other bugs soon: 1 will resolve this for the short term, and the other for the longer term.
(In reply to comment #4) > Matej: please make sure a bug is filed to get icedtea's plugin installed by > default it isn't. bug 432951 > Also file a generic bug about implementing our own plugin finder service and > mark this dependent on it. bug 432957 and there seems to be many pronouns in your sentence, so I am not sure which bug you want to make dependent on which.