java support in FBSD Firefox 4

[Tim Kellers]

On 03/31/11 11:06, John Levine wrote:
> In article<4D948902.6000204 at wallnet.com>  you write:
>> Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4...
>>
>> Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already
>> written or available.  If there isn't, does anyone have any hints?
> It's unchanged from 3.6, or at least, when I upgraded from 3.6 to 4
> Java kept working.
>
> This link explains it pretty well:
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010
>
> R's,
> John
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Thanks.

Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk.

That:
ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

was the missing step for me.

Tim Kellers