(jdk15) Java plugin for firefox - how to enable?

[Coleman Kane]

On 2/5/06, Conrad Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
> > On 2/5/06, Conrad Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
> >> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on amd64 and would like to get the
> Sun
> >> > JDK browser plugin set up on my system. I use firefox from ports.
> >> [snip]
> >> > Is it possible for amd64 users of jdk15 and firefox to have a
> >> > compatible browser plugin?
> >>
> >> Not at this time, no.  I once tried commenting out the part of the
> >> Makefile
> >> that disabled building the plugin just to see what would happen, but
> the
> >> compile failed.
> >
> > I wonder then, is it possible to install a 32-bit firefox on
> > freebsd/amd64 that could take a different java plugin?
>
> About your only hope *may* be to install a 32-bit Linux version of both
> firefox and java.
>
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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Such also seems to be your only hope to getting Macromedia shockwave plugin
to work under FreeBSD/amd64 as well. :(

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Coleman Kane