Firefox & Java

Beecher Rintoul akbeech at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 02:51:15 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:56 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> >I am attempting to get java working with firefox. I have both jdk 1.4 and
> > 1.5 installed. Per google, I symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, but firefox doesn't work with either
> > jdk. No errors, just comes up saying plugin required. What else do I need
> > to do? I'd like to use 1.5 if possible.
>
> For a start show us:
>
>   /bin/ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins

stargate# /bin/ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      0 Sep 11 00:57 .firefox.keep
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     49 Sep 10 12:16 flashplayer.xpt 
-> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     51 Sep 10 12:16 libflashplayer.so 
-> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     78 Sep 13 01:45 libjavaplugin_oji.so 
-> /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19350 Sep  3 20:16 libnpflash.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     47 Sep 10 12:16 nphelix.so 
-> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     48 Sep 10 12:16 nphelix.xpt 
-> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     68 Sep 10 12:16 nppdf.so 
-> /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

>
> and then
>
>   /bin/ls -lL /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins

stargate# /bin/ls -lL /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
total 2726
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        0 Sep 11 00:57 .firefox.keep
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      856 Sep  7 22:58 flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1470464 Sep  7 22:58 libflashplayer.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel   281996 Mar  4  2005 libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    19350 Sep  3 20:16 libnpflash.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    57457 Sep  7 23:23 nphelix.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     5086 Sep  7 23:23 nphelix.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   878568 Jul 27 14:10 nppdf.so

>
> Firefox with 1.4 works fine for me, so maybe you just didn't get the
> links right.
>
> --Alex

Hope this helps, I'd really like to get it working.

Beech
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