Browsers - Opera section

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 2 09:21:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:22:49AM +0100, Alvaro Castillo wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:50:35AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> >> Hallo Marc Fonvieille,
> >>
> >> > To sum up: You installed:
> >> >
> >> > www/opera
> >> > www/opera-linuxplugins
> >> > www/linux-f10-flashplugin10
> >> >
> >> > Am I correct?
> >>
> >> This should been enough.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks.  I already updated the Handbook and added some guidance for
> > Java.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
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> yes, I saw it. I sent message about openjdk6 and icedtea-web too (to 8
> days ago) (over mail). I thought any ignored me because any replied
> me.
> 

Hmm, sorry, I missed it.

> However, Firefox 5 and Opera didn't need this.
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/
> 
> Both auto-detected IcedTea
> 
> Opera symbolic link > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
> 
> Firefox 5 > /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> 
> Any user can use IcedTea plugin automatically. (Firefox 5 and Opera. I
> haven't tried Firefox old versions)
> 

Firefox 3.6 may need this link.  Regarding this question of link, we had
many issues in past with people who needed the link to have a working
Java plugin, and others who had a plugin working without typing any
additional line.  I just reworded that part to make it optional just in
case of a problem.

-- 
Marc



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