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Date:      31 Mar 2011 12:47:18 -0400
From:      "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        "Tim Kellers" <timothyk@wallnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103311244490.75381@joyce.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4D94A4E8.7070400@wallnet.com>
References:  <20110331150630.53670.qmail@joyce.lan> <4D94A4E8.7070400@wallnet.com>

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>> This link explains it pretty well:
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010

> Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk.

It was 3.6.  Check the archives for considerable gnashing of teeth as we 
tried to figure out how to get Java working again.

> ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
> was the missing step for me.

Free bonus: if you use Chromium, it works there, too:

ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/local/share/chromium/

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly



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