firefox-5.0 and icedtea-web[nsplugin]?

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6749

Does anybody know the plans/recommendations how to use firefox-5 with a free java implementation like icedtea?
Is the dependency of icedtea-web[nsplugin] on xulrunner just a bug which should be reported/changed to firefox, or does it really depend on xulrunner?
If the latter is the case, what will happen since xulrunner is no longer supported? Should one keep the obsolete version around?

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

I do not think xulrunner is deprecated. Just that xulrunner 5 is not yet in tree and that the firefox-5.0 ebuild uses a bundle version thereof.

The plugin is also meant to work with chrome as far as I know. So depending on xulrunner if sufficient seems the right thing to do.

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6749

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

I can't find any upstream comment about dropping support for xulrunner. The following URI also suggests otherwise http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/nightly/5.0-candidates/build1/runtimes/

The sources for xulrunner were always shipped with the same tarball as firefox as far as I'm aware. It's just that Gentoo offered it as a separate build.

.maverick · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 159 Location: Bonn

Which was nice IMHO because it gave us at least a little hope that we would sometimes be able to use thunderbird with the same xulrunner as firefox…

Also, removing xulrunner effectively broke Gnome 3 \o/