Firefox, java, plugins - need to go back to the port?

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue Feb 15 18:37:30 GMT 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:03:06PM -0600, John wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:30:55PM -0600, John wrote:
> > I installed firefox from the packages, and now that it seems
> > like I may have Java installed, I'd like to get the two to play
> > together.
<snip>
> No-one have an anwer or a pointer for me? Is it necessary to install
> the JDK (or JRE if we ever get one again) and then build firefox from
> ports to get the Java plug-in?

See if you can find the plugin shared library in the java port (IIRC,
its name is libjavaplugin_oji.so) and stick that in firefox' plugin
directory. 

HTH,

Roland
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