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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:37:46 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimtLjYpJdNk9D45ay%2Bsw2FxSNpZwB6Lr%2BYwD64e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100915100848.2446ab49@scorpio>
References:  <20100915151732.GA46569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20100915100848.2446ab49@scorpio>

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote:
> As per the Mozilla site:
>
> "Starting in Firefox 3.6, you also need the new Java plugin included in
> Java 6 Update 15 and above."
>
> FreeBSD does not supply, nor support as far as I can decipher, that
> version or any of the newer versions, the latest being version 6, update
> 21. Nor, as I stated previously, has anyone stated definitively why.

That's one of the problems w.r.t. Java on FreeBSD:  I had to install
openjdk6, which provides at least this level in order to run all services
that Freenet provides (Freenet runs in degraded mode with java/jdk16,
because that version is too old and contains a big XML-related vulnerability).
But java/openjdk6 works just fine with Freenet and almost any Java program
I could throw at it. I don't know about Firefox 3.6 plugins though.

% java -version
openjdk version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b20)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode)

-cpghost.

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