Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 18, 2011 16:41 UTC (Sun) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin by geuder
Parent article: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

> I created a bug report in launchpad and offered my help to debug it but got no reaction from any maintainer.

You might want to file a bug report upstream against IcedTea-Web if the package maintainer is unresponsive: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla

Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 18, 2011 17:50 UTC (Sun) by gnu_andrew (guest, #49515) [Link] (1 responses)

I'd suggest that too. A lot of the issues with fixing problems with the plugin and banking sites has been that we can't reproduce the problem as we obviously don't have an account with them to login and the code tends to be obfusticated. However, with a responsive reporter who's responsive and willing to try things, some progress may be possible. If you don't get a response in a reasonable time there either, ping either dbhole (the IcedTea-Web maintainer) or me (gnu_andrew) on IRC (#openjdk on OFTC).

Note that the plugin is one of the areas where Sun/Oracle have not released their code as FOSS and, along with the accompanying javaws, the only one not to have any replacement in OpenJDK itself.

Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Posted Dec 18, 2011 20:24 UTC (Sun) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]

Thanks mjw and gnu_andrew for your concrete pointers and suggestions.

I'll come back to them when I have a bit more time and can overcome my reluctance to address that nasty banking stuff again... I guess chances are still good that I'll do it before migrating to Windows permanently ;)

> A lot of the issues with fixing problems with the plugin and
> banking sites has been that we can't reproduce the problem as
> we obviously don't have an account

Absolutely: I have actually contacted my bank last time when I was fighting with the problem and asked them to provide a demo account. Unfortunately without any concrete results. They promised to retun to the issue later, which they haven't done. Some banks here have a demo account just to show how great their pages are. But the guys with the Java stuff don't.