[ale] Firefox-3.6.3 and Java

[Pete Hardie]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:30, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I recently updated my SuSE-10.1 laptop and found the new Firefox update
> had lost Java. At that point I went ahead and updated to Firefox-3.6.3
> figuring I might as well start higher on tree. I similarly updated my Java
> to jre1.6.0_20. Unfortuately I can't enable a plugin with this
> combination.
>
> I soft-linked the jre plugin to the 'plugins' directory of my -3.6.3, but
> it is never detected nor used. I tried clearing the cache in
> Prefrences>Advanced panel, links in ~/.mozilla/plugins and
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins, and browser restarts, all without success.
>
> Any ideas how to crack this nut?


In the later Fedora releases, the java plugin is named differently
than the older name - libnpjp2.so, I think


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