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Date:      Mon, 6 Feb 2006 01:17:56 -0500
From:      Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com>
To:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (jdk15) Java plugin for firefox - how to enable?
Message-ID:  <346a80220602052217t9b41338x8147195bcf74d15a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20060205203531.conrads@cox.net>
References:  <839aec700602051802s41825fc8p2f70236898852234@mail.gmail.com> <XFMail.20060205203531.conrads@cox.net>

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On 2/5/06, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
> > On 2/5/06, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
> >> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on amd64 and would like to get the
> Sun
> >> > JDK browser plugin set up on my system. I use firefox from ports.
> >> [snip]
> >> > Is it possible for amd64 users of jdk15 and firefox to have a
> >> > compatible browser plugin?
> >>
> >> Not at this time, no.  I once tried commenting out the part of the
> >> Makefile
> >> that disabled building the plugin just to see what would happen, but
> the
> >> compile failed.
> >
> > I wonder then, is it possible to install a 32-bit firefox on
> > freebsd/amd64 that could take a different java plugin?
>
> About your only hope *may* be to install a 32-bit Linux version of both
> firefox and java.
>
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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Such also seems to be your only hope to getting Macromedia shockwave plugin
to work under FreeBSD/amd64 as well. :(

--
Coleman Kane



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