>>>> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit >>>> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer >>>> works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for >>>> java to work? >>> >>> Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser >>> plug-in until very recently. >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java >> >> That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell >> me a package name? > > Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've > read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from > the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre > installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins > directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last > time I ran into java on the web.
Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that. - Grant
