[Bug 99352] Re: feisty+firefox+amd64+java=segfault

[Dave Gilbert]

Alexander Sack wrote:

> Its not firefox's job to run java in that way ... its the job of java
> plugin to do that.

I agree; the problem is that from a users point of view the current
setup is too flaky.

> Anyway, we are working on nspluginwrapper ... and hopefully java
> 32-bit can then run on adm64 as well ... but lets see.

As I understand it nspluginwrapper can't run the java plugin at the moment;
but I can see that would be nice; I think it would also be nice for it to be used
on 32bit systems as the way to run Java - I just think keeping it out of firefox's
way is a good thing.

I think the thing that is different about java is that it can be run as a separate command/process
already (as KDE does) and that lets you mix and match a much wider range of JVMs.
Perhaps that could be implemented as a generic java plugin that was independent
of the JVM that actually got run?

(Incidentally I find nspluginwrapper useful but far from 100% reliable; I find after a while
it just stops running flash and I have problems with it losing clicks (#108733 that
originally thought might be a compiz issue); but nspluginwrapper not being packaged
doesn't really have a place to keep it's bugs on here).

Dave

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feisty+firefox+amd64+java=segfault
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