645556 - Java doesn't work in FF 4 on OS X 10.7 Lion

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Plugins Graveyard :: Java (Apple), defect)

Description

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Testing with FF 4 on Apple's current Lion developer preview (build
11A390), attempting to load any Java applet displays the "missing
plugin" icon.

Java applets load fine in Safari, and in FF 3.6.16 (using the JEP).

Note that for Java to work anywhere on Lion, you have to download and
install a "Java Web Components for Mac OS X 10.7".  It's available to
those with an ADC account at http://connect.apple.com/.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I should be able to get to this in the next month or so -- which
should still be well in advance of Lion's release.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Actually, this is more serious than "normal".

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not blocking "macaw" given the "next month or so" time frame in comment 1 (at that rate may not make Firefox 5 either). Not sure how to make things "block" a later release but I assume this one does.

Comment 5

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Apple has fixed this on their side.

I tested in Apple's latest Lion developer preview ("Mac OS X Lion
Developer Preview 2"), plus the	"Lion Developer	Preview	Update"
installed using Software Update inside Lion DP2.  On top of that I
installed "Java for Mac OS X 10.7" (released 2011-03-30) from
https://connect.apple.com.

I tested with Firefox 4.0 and a recent trunk nightly.

If you haven't changed the default settings in Java Preferences, you
get an "Inactive Plug-in" graphic where the plugin should have loaded.
When you click on this you're given a number of choices, including
enabling Java applets.	You must restart the browser for this change
to take effect.  But from this point Java applets load normally, in
the current browser session and subsequent ones.

Sometimes it pays just to wait :-)

Comment 6

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Apple has changed the name of their Java plugin on OS X Lion (10.7) --
it's now "JavaAppletPlugin.plugin" (on OS X 10.5 and 10.6 it's
"JavaPlugin2_NPAPI.plugin").  There are a number of places where we
hard-code the name of this plugin -- which will now have to be
changed.

But that's another bug.

Comment 7

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> I tested in Apple's latest Lion developer preview ("Mac OS X Lion
> Developer Preview 2"), plus the "Lion Developer Preview Update"
> installed using Software Update inside Lion DP2.

The build number for this combination is 11A430e.

Comment 8

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

The build number for DP2 by itself is 11A419.

Comment 9

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> But that's another bug.

I've opened bug 651618.