Firefox and java

[John]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:22:43 -0500, RL <rlurman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Java isn't showing up in about:plugins on Firefox.  I compiled java
> > (when I compiled OpenOffice) and here is my /etc/libmap.conf entry for
> > it (maybe I missed something?)
> > 
> > [/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java]
> > libkse.so.1                    libc_r.so.5
> > libkse.so                       libc_r.so
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>  Once I added the jdk14 port I had to create the following symlink to
> get java to work and show up in the plugins.
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
> Hope this helps.

BINGO!

Geez!  That's great - but how the HECK did you know this was the
magic key?  This shouldn't be so ARCANE!!!

I'd have been looking for something in a "firefox" branch - in
fact, I was just trying to find such a thing when your e-mail
came.

THANK YOU!!!
-- 

John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG