[Nix-dev] Java support in Firefox?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

Hello again Peter,

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:43:50AM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 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?
> 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?

Now that I recheck, firefox 11 hangs me at other pages for long, and here I
don't have my last commit for the jdk. After the hang for some time, the java
windows paint bad.

I use to have jre enabled, but tt may be that I did not visit any java page
since the stdenv merge. Maybe the merge broke the jre in firefox? Before the
merge, it worked, but I can't tell for sure it worked in firefox 11
specifically.

Regards,
Lluís.