Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages
Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/17/05, [KS] <lists04@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> Well the trademark issues reason is understandable as there has been
>> lots (yes lottttts) of discussion on that topic. So if firefox is
>> available as 1.4.99+1.5rc3, why is it that an apt-get dist-upgrade does
>> not replace my mozilla-firefox with firefox? Some info on when/if this
>> will happen or not would be appreciated.
>
> At the moment, I'm very glad that it doesn't. Aside from a few
> extensions which didn't have 1.5-compatible versions yet, I couldn't
> get java working in 1.5.
That's bug #342316. Basically the java plugin is not being copied to
the firefox/plugins directory. Here's how I fixed it:
# ln -s /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
Cheers,
John
Reply to: