685116 - plugin.scan.SunJRE value has no effect

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[clockgraveyard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Firefox/6.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.3.3
Build ID: 20110902180055

Steps to reproduce:

For testing purposes, I would like SeaMonkey to use the Java 5.0 plugin and JRE (not just the JRE). Prior to SeaMonkey 2.3, I would just copy the Java 5.0 np*.dll files to the SeaMonkey plugins directory. SeaMonkey 2.3, however, discovered my Java 6 JRE and used that. Following the advice at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning, I tried to prevent the scan for JRE 6 by setting the config value plugin.scan.SunJRE to 1.9.


Actual results:

Nothing changed


Expected results:

I had hoped that the automatic scan would have been unsuccessful and that only the explicitly copied DLLs in the plugins directory would be used.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The old npoji plugin doesn't work anymore. JRE1.6 U14 or later is required and it comes with the new java plugin npjp2.dll.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

With the new add-ons manager, it has become quite easy to enable/disable plugins individually. In particular if you have two different plugins installed for a common functionality, you can choose which one to use. Of course, if only one is up-to-date you should disable the other.

Comment 3

[clockgraveyard]

Thanks, Tony and Matthias. I thought I'd seen the JRE 5.0 plug-in work when I uninstalled JRE 6, but I must have been deluding myself. I think my best bet is to keep a SeaMonkey 2.2 installation around for when I want to use the JRE 5.0 plug-in.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to clockgraveyard from comment #0)

> For testing purposes, I would like SeaMonkey to use the Java 5.0 plugin and

Not supported anymore.
R.Invalid.

> I tried to prevent the scan for
> JRE 6 by setting the config value plugin.scan.SunJRE to 1.9.

That part might be bug 583566.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie) from comment #4)
> > I tried to prevent the scan for
> > JRE 6 by setting the config value plugin.scan.SunJRE to 1.9.
> 
> That part might be bug 583566.

Or bug 358090.