Is browser plugin broken?

Achilleas Mantzios achill at smadev.internal.net
Mon Jan 9 09:19:36 UTC 2012


IIRC, newest firefox's work only with openjdk/icedtea. So, you have to install 
latest openjdk with the icedtea plugin enabled.

On Δευ 09 Ιαν 2012 05:38:52 Mikhail T. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to enable Java plugin on my FreeBSD-8.2/amd64 machine --
> fruitlessly. Though Java (installed by the java/jdk16 port) itself is
> working great (vuze and serviio are running 24/7), Firefox (6.0.2) does
> not open any applets -- and, most annoyingly, does not output any
> diagnostics either.
> 
> There are several recipes out there, some talk about sym-linking
> libjavaplugin_jni.so into various directories and others -- about
> changing the java.* configuration strings in Firefox' about:config.
> 
> The authoritative manual, however, refers to OpenJDK:
> 
>    
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-JAVA-PLUGIN
> 
> -- is there something broken in jdk16, that makes it unusable with
> Firefox? Thanks!
> 
>     -mi
> 
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