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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:01:08
Message-Id: 49bf44f10901220901x4471ca15id03fd55c099d453e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java? by Paul Hartman
1 >>>> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit
2 >>>> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer
3 >>>> works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for
4 >>>> java to work?
5 >>>
6 >>> Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser
7 >>> plug-in until very recently.
8 >>>
9 >>> http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java
10 >>
11 >> That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell
12 >> me a package name?
13 >
14 > Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've
15 > read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from
16 > the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre
17 > installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins
18 > directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last
19 > time I ran into java on the web.
20
21 Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that.
22
23 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>