Firefox java plugin

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:49:12 +0200 (CEST)
"P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich at pukruppa.net> wrote:

> 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.

Another alternative would be to use Konqueror instead of Firefox.  It
allows you to specify the path to the java executable in its
preferences, which it then uses as a pseudo-plugin.  Works fine for me.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net>