Bug#576361: libwebkit-1.0-2: Java support?

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:24:12AM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 00:34 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > With the newest icedtea/openjdk packages it's possible to get Java
> > working by launching Epiphany with:
> >  
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/ epiphany-browser
> > 
> > Except that as soon as an applet is running, epiphany becomes
> > unresponsive, fails to respons to input and stops redrawing.
> > 
> > This error is printed on the terminal:
> > 
> >         java version "1.6.0_18"
> >         OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (6b18-1.8-2)
> >         OpenJDK Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
> >         /scratch/packages/openjdk/b18/openjdk-6-6b18-1.8/build/../plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:622: thread 0x9a08ea8: Error: Unknown plugin value requested.
> > 
> > Any ideas if this is a problem with Webkit, Icedtea, or in the browser
> > (both Epiphany and Midori have the same problem)?
> 
> Adding the Xulrunner path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to the right way for
> other browsers to get Icedtea working, at least that's how Chromium does
> it, see bug #574679.

... I don't know how chromium does the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting, but it's
very likely to break with future versions of xulrunner... (like if you
remove xulrunner-1.9.1 and install iceweasel 3.6.4 from experimental...)

Mike