Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java in Firefox??

[Wil Reichert]

Theres currently work on a 64-bit plugin.  Add the java-gcj-overlay and
emerge dev-java/gcj-jdk with the nsplugin use flag.  Then 'eselect
java-nsplugin list' shows:

Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
  [1]   gcj-jdk-4.3  current

and in firefox about:plugins show

GCJ Web Browser Plugin 0.96-pre
File name: libgcjwebplugin.so The GCJ Web Browser Plugin executes Java
applets.Quite alpha & crashes often, but definitely shows promise.

Wil

On Jan 26, 2008 12:31 PM, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote:

> well, java plugin is only build on 32bit. to have it work in firefox
> there's only one way: 32bit firefox.
> for the other extensions (that on 64bit work) to work with 32bit you need
> to build them for 32bit with the correct flag set into portage, on multilib
> systems, as yours, portage can build 32bit binaries natively. all you have
> to do is pass to portage the right flag to do so and to unmask the 32bit
> package. for how to do this search in the gentoo documentation.
> the other way to use java on 64bit is konqueror on kde (i don't know it
> nautilus does this too): konqueror would use the 64bit javavm, which was
> build also on 64bit, and can use flash via nspluginwrapper and
> netscape-flash. in this way you'd have a native 64bit web client, with flash
> plugin, also only 32bit version, enabled via emulation with nspluginwrapper.
> for having konqueror work set it recognization to firefox or iexplore in the
> preferences, or you might miss some sites' features that required firefox or
> iexploder.
> for nautilus on gnome you might try to see if it supports 64bit java and
> nspluginwrapper too.
> these are the actual choices for java and flash on 64bit platoforms. i
> really hope that firefox 3 would come out with support for javavm for linux
> and not with only that crappy javaplugin one.
>
> 2008/1/26, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
>
> > On Jan 26, 2008 11:33 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@×××××××.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > On Jan 26, 2008 11:05 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@×××××××.net>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <SNIP>
> > > >
> > > > This is likely the culprit:
> > > >
> > > > lightning ~ # eix nspluginwrapper
> > > > [I] net-www/nspluginwrapper
> > > >      Available versions:  0.9.91.4 ~0.9.91.5 ~0.9.91.5-r1
> > > >      Installed versions:  0.9.91.4(12:21:31 PM 11/12/2007)
> > > >      Homepage:
> > http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/
> > > >      Description:         Netscape Plugin Wrapper - Load 32bit
> > plugins
> > > > on 64bit browser
> > > >
> > > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper
> > > >
> > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > > >
> > > > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > > > [ebuild   R   ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4  0 kB
> > > >
> > > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> > > > lightning ~ #
> > >
> > > # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper
> > >
> > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > > [ebuild   R   ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-r1  0 kB
> > >
> > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> > > DreamScape ~ #
> > >
> > > Well ... I uninstalled mozilla-firefox and installed
> > > mozilla-firefox-bin. It said, "NB -- you are installing a 32-bit
> > > Firefox". The good news is that it works with Java and the R search
> > > engine! The bad news is that it doesn't have all the *other* plugins
> > > that the 64-bit compiled Firefox did. Do I need to re-emerge them?
> > Will
> > > revdep-rebuild clean this up?
> >
> > This is the age old problem, as far as I know, with 64-bit Linux and a
> > world full of 32-bit multimedia.  I think this wiki will surely
> > explain it better than I ever could. Hopefully the basic info you need
> > is there:
> >
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_firefox_with_java_on_amd64
> >
> > I will say that my experience is that so far no single browser/plugin
> > combination works as well for all web media types as our 32-bit
> > brethren have, and that doesn't work as well as Windows. There are
> > issues with Java, Flash support, mplayer and other plugins for
> > streaming file types, so the answer is no one answer seems to be right
> > for everyone. My setup work *ok* for me, not well. I'm not happy with
> > it but I'm not motivated enough to change things. I trade stocks on a
> > Windows laptop so I use that machine for the numerous things I cannot
> > do on Linux, 32-bit or 64-bit.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Mark
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
> dott. ing. beso