I have been asked to file a separate bugreport for Linux. Bug 66840 states the problem. Relevant postings in bug 66840 wrt Linux were made by wtanaka@yahoo.com, Laurent Duperval, mlr3@duke.edu, Samir Gehani, and myself. But as the original bugreport was targetted at Windows, the folks over there suggested filing this one separately. I'm adding all relevant posters here to CC. In the middle of the bugreports there was a branch to bug 68356: an installer problem was fixed, but after that a different problem remains. Summary: I built Mozilla on Linux from CVS with a ~/.mozconfig of ac_add_options --enable-idltool ac_add_options --enable-svg and with the relevant steps to produce PSM. When I installed Java via the default course of action (wait till you see an applet, then click yourself through to download the plugin, then restart Mozilla) Mozilla did not display the applet but instead offered the download once again. But then, when I added ac_add_options --disable-debug Mozilla did recognize the Java Plugin.

I've been seeing this for a while also. Builds without --disable-debug will not recognize the plugin even if the symlink is created correctly (what bug 68256 was about, I believe). Changing severity to blocker since this makes it well-nigh impossible to test/debug Java crashes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61049 ***

verified duplicate

Where is the ./mozconfig file?

Joe is the owner.

rarebullet: what was the reason to reopen this bug? could you please clarify this?

Please read http://mozilla.org/build/configurator-faq.html for details on .mozconfig and how to use it Dup of "Mozilla fails to detect installation of JRE plugin" by following the dup-chain *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66840 ***

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