[Nix-dev] Java support in Firefox?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> I enabled jre support for firefox in my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix file:
> 
>  | {
>  |   firefox = {
>  |     jre = true;
>  |   };
>  | }
> 
> However, I it seems like I cannot access any page that use actually Java.
> The site <http://javatester.org/>, for example, just crashes the browser.
> Is that a known problem? Has anyone to make Java work in Firefox?

Hello Peter,

I tried to update the jdk last week, due to a java security hole.
Maybe this change made the browser to crash?

Btw, specifically that page you gave *hangs* my firefox, which in this case does not
have that update. By crash you mean hang?

Regards,
Lluís.