Re: [gentoo-user] Java plugin in Midori web browser

["José Romildo Malaquias" <jrmalaq@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:00:30AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:25:43 PM José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> > I need help getting java plugin working in the Midori web browser.
> > 
> > I have dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.51 installed on my ~amd64
> > system.
> > 
> > The plugin works with Firefox.
> 
> I don't use midori, but according to their FAQ it uses firefox's
> plugin, so run:
> 
> eselect java-nsplugin list
> 
> And check that it's properly set.

It is already configured:

# eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
  [1]   oracle-jdk-bin-1.8  current

> Then try:
> 
> # MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins midori 
> 
> Replace midori with whatever the midori executable is called.

It seems that Midori is not seeing the Java plugin and the test page
. I am getting the following when testing for the Java plugin:

% ls -l /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins
total 18840
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       67 Dec 31  2014 javaplugin.so -> //usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8-javaplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19264896 Aug 13 07:34 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    18672 Jul 27 10:47 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so

% MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins midori http://javatester.org/version.html
[...]
ERROR: Didn't find JVM under /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins
WebKitPluginProcess: ../../../../src/plugin/solaris/plugin2/common/JavaVM.c:170: InitializeJVM: Assertion `foundJVM' failed.


Also, loading the page
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-java-installed in Midori shows
that the Java plugin is disabled.


Any more clues?


> Now are you sure that it works with firefox? I ask because I use the same 
> package and I recently noticed that it's not working with firefox. What firefox 
> version you have?

Yes, it works with Firefox. But first it may be necessary to give
permissions to execute Java applications from the site of interest.

After running the Java Control Panel (jcontrol) and adding the site
http://javatester.org/ to the exception site list (in the Security tab),
the plugin is correctly detected, as can be seen in the attached image.

Regards,
Romildo

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