From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 07:30:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6316516A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:30:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E268E43D46 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:30:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from d150-217-179.home.cgocable.net (d150-217-179.home.cgocable.net [24.150.217.179]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D963F63 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:30:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:30:36 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Brian Bobowski" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (FreeBSD, build 751) Subject: Java under Opera 7.54? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:30:38 -0000 Hi all. Web browsers evidently don't like me. I'd prefer to run Firefox, but it frequently either core-dumps on signal 11 or just disappears entirely; as it is I'm basically only able to use it for Gmail. So I turned back to Opera, which has proven quite stable. However, I've NEVER been able to get Java working under Opera. The docs say that it uses Java 2(various example paths have J2RE) and the only Java 2 thing I can find is the SDK. Given the time it took to compile the JRE I've got, I'd rather not install that port only to find that it's useless to me. FreeBSD 5.2.1, Opera 7.54, and I did try pointing Opera to my existing Java path, /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/ When asked to Validate, Opera says it looks fine, but when I restart it, Help->About reports no JRE installed and Java applets don't work. The checkbox to activate Java is greyed out. Has anyone been able to convince Java and Opera to get along under FreeBSD? If so, any help would be appreciated. I'm not the most technical of people, so while I can install FreeBSD just fine, the multitude of JREs and JDKs leaves me at a loss. TIA. -- -Brian Bobowski