Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:08:54 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: JAVA-applets crash mozilla Message-ID: <20011201075737.C1589-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <1007182037.19011.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Hi Joe! On 1 Dec 2001, Joe Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 21:00, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > > > > I still do not believe that mozilla supports JAVA as some > > people on this list say. But I installed linux-jdk1.3.1 and > > a linux-build (0.9.6) from mozilla.org into /usr/local. > > Then I linked jdk's libjavaplugin_oji.so into mozilla's > > plugins directory. > > After this I restarted mozilla and tried to visit > > java.sun.com > > and off it went (pages without JAVA run fine, of course). > > When you say, "off it went," do you mean it crashed.? Yes, Mozilla closed down. > I think > symlinking the plugin into Mozilla's plugin directory is a bad idea. Symbolic links are of no use anyway. Linux-Mozilla and Linux-JDK seem to work in /compat/linux/ directory. So I set a hard link. > This didn't work for me with NS 4. Instead, try setting the plugin > environment variables to include the path to libjavaplugin_oji.so. In > NS 4, the variable is NPX_PLUGIN_PATH. It may be the same for Mozilla, > but you might want to check. I found a hint about that at sun's JAVA pages. But they say it only works with NS 4. For NS 6 you should set the link. Anyway: I tried it and it failed. Thanx for your answer though! But: > > > > What now? > > > > > > Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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