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[Kjell Braden <fnord@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recreated the bug with icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-0ubuntu5. After
upgrading to 1.0-0ubuntu7, it didn't fix the issue at first (I got the
following error: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory). After installing libxul-dev it worked and fixed the issue
for me.

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[hardy] Java plugin not registered in Firefox 2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211309
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Status in Source Package "icedtea-gcjwebplugin" in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in Source Package "sun-java5" in Ubuntu: New
Status in Source Package "sun-java6" in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in icedtea-gcjwebplugin in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Committed
Status in sun-java5 in Ubuntu Hardy: New
Status in sun-java6 in Ubuntu Hardy: New

Bug description:
Java plugin is not registered with Firefox 2, only Firefox 3.

Solution:  In sun-java6-plugin.postinst script, extend the

browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons"

variable by "firefox" or "firefox-addons".

whichever is right.