On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
I'm a little surprised that I haven't heard anything about the java plugin
for firefox 3.6.
From the articles I've read, it looks like firefox 3.6 and above only works
with the newer java plugin libnpjp2.so (not the older libjavaplugin_oji.so)
I discovered that too, but have had no problems with java since
I put in a sym link to the new plugin.
It turns out that the new plugin works with firefox 3.0.19 too
- pity we didn't discover this issue earlier.
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+Java+plugin+with+Firefox
Because of this, I'm updating java-1.6.0-sun-compat to put the new plugin
where firefox can get it. It should be in testing today.
My question is this.
Does anyone know of a way for firefox 3.6 to use the old plugin, incase some
users need to use the old plugin?
Sorry no. Given that 3.0.19 supports the new plugin
we may be passed the compatibility overlap :-(
Fedora 13 (updates) has an IcedTeaPlugin.so in
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-41.b18.fc13.i686.rpm - the
postinstall script does
alternatives \
--install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so \
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so 16000
.. but the Red Hat 5 build of java-1.6.0-openjdk doesn't include
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin, otherwise I would have suggested
1) switching to OpenJDK
2) making java-1.6.0-sun-compat work the same way
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