Firefox java plugin

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Yuri Pankov wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:32:26PM -0700, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
>>  I am running Freebsd 6.2, and I just installed Firefox 2.0.0.3,1 and
>>  diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_3, it doesn't seem to have included the java plugin
>>  library, at least I can't find it in the jre/lib/amd64 directory, and there
>>  is no plugin directory.
>>
>>  I the java plugin not supported on amd64? if so, how do I get working?
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Jeff
>
> Guessing on ports/java/jdk15/Makefile browser plugin and Java Web Start are not
> supported on amd64.
>
> <snip>
> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64"
> WITHOUT_WEB=    yes
> .else
> OPTIONS+=       WEB     "Enable the browser plugin and Java Web Start"  on
> .endif
> <snip>
If you are in urgent need of java plugins on amd64 you can try
linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 with linux-opera - at least it works for me.

Greetings,

Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany