Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52464
java not working in mozilla
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-2 i686) Description of problem: after installing java plugin and getting a successful result java just does not work Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start mozilla(under root) 2.go to any page containing java 3.get a prompt to install java 4.press ok at the prompt to install Sun's java2 plugin 5.Install the plugin and get a Success. 6.restart mozilla and go to a java page again 7.get a prompt to install java again. Actual Results: java plugin not working Expected Results: java plugin should work Additional info: i use roswell2 and mozilla-0.9.2-10
I suspect this is also caused by the dlopen problem that I submitted in bug 52844. See also that bug (don't know how to link bugs, I'm just a lowly user). David
From a user standpoint, is it unreasonable to have Java work with mozilla out-of-the-box with Redhat 7.2? It seems that there is enough java usage on the Internet to have require that Java enabled pages work by default. Why should we have to install a plugin over the web to get java working?
i have some additional very important comments. java plugin mysteriously starts to work after you install XFree86-devel libraries and run /sbin/ldconfig now i think you should fix this problem because not all users are XFree developers.
why don't redhat ships the sun jre 1.4 within the distro? note that i'm talking about the jre, which is freely distributable, not the jdk (which you have to license in order to distribute it, if i remember correct). i want to run the setup, reboot, run mozilla and have java applets work out of the box! please! and don't tell me about the sun jre not being open source! netscape 4 isn't open source, and you have shipped it for years.
The JRE isn't freely redistributable.
in any case suse 8 professional distributes the jdk out of the box, so why you do the same ?
Wontfix.
we really need java support out of the box! at least to run the 1.1 java applets (no real need the full sun jre 1.4). so why not shipping an open source java implementation? think about kaffe (www.kaffe.org). recently the kaffe development restarted, after a looong pause. i know that it is still immature, but it will improve. why don't redhat put one (only one!) programmer working on kaffe? in a couple of months kaffe could become an usable java 1.1 implementation, able to run most of the applets floating around on the web. please!