309497 - Newest version of JavaEmbeddingPlugin is not installed with 1.0a1 (if older version of JEP is already present)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308549

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Markus Haenchen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1

I had JEP 0.9.0 installed since February. Since then I went through several
version of Camino, with the latest now being 1.0a1. Although it says that the
JEP is now included in Camino, I had to manually install JEP 0.9.4 to update
from JEP 0.9.0.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I, too, wish Mozilla.org would be quicker at upgrading the JEP image that gets
bundled with distros that are "cut" from the "trunk" and the 1.8 and (Camino)
1.0 branches.  But Mozilla.org can't do anything about the version of the JEP
in a distro _after_ that distro has been "released" :-)

The Mozilla.org browsers always use the version of the JEP that's been bundled
(if one has been bundled), instead of looking in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
for a newer version.  This behavior should _definitely_ continue -- otherwise
you open a very large and nasty can of worms.  Remember how much Windows users
complain about "DLL Hell"?

Ideally, Firefox, Camino and SeaMonkey users who want to use the latest
version of the Java Embedding Plugin would download those browsers' latest
nightlies.  But this isn't yet an option.

In the meantime, you should do the following:

1. Download the latest Java Embedding Plugin from
   http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/ and install it to your /Library/Internet
   Plug-Ins/ directory (following the instructions in the JEP Readme).

2. For each Mozilla.org browser that you have, delete _both_
   JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle and MRJPlugin.plugin from that browser's
   Contents/MacOS/plugins directory.

   To be able to see the contents of that directory, Control-click (or
   right-click) on the browser and choose "Show Package Contents".

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

The issue(s) of getting JEP updates delivered to users of release and milestone
builds of Moz browsers is being discussed in bug 308549.

Mike, can we get 0.9.4 landed for the nightlies soon?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308549 ***