# eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
  [1]  emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 current
  [2]  emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-plugin2
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
  [1]  sun-jdk-1.6

I have blackdown java installed but it does not show up in eselect. Why is that?

When I start firefox-bin & goto about:plugins it says "no plugins
installed", despite this symlink:
/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
/usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-javaplugin.so

When I use 64 bit firefox with the sun jdk it comes up and 'sort of'
works, sort of doesn't. In general
I hate it because its flaky, & consistently fails on 1 big applet.

I was previously using the blackdown plugin, however if I manually
create the symlink, firefox will not start up, it Segmentation
fault's. This is the symlink I setup:
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
I also tried pointing it to
/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
which also causes a Segmentation fault.

I dont care whether I use 32 or 64 bit firefox, I just want java to
work reliably.

Googling, a lot of people are getting Segmentation faults, with the
suggestion "use blackdown". However even mozilla's plugin page does
not give the symlinks to use.

This page http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
says to make the source libjavaplugin_oji.so
If I use that or javaplugin_oji.so firefox starts but about:plugins
shows no plugins installed.

My googling isn't turning up much helpful, I suspect I just don't know
enough to provide good keywords.