From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:37:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87928106564A for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444B18FC0C for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywt2 with SMTP id 2so737309ywt.13 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:37:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr4676286anc.151.1284687466224; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.16.7 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:37:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.203.61.122] In-Reply-To: <20100915100848.2446ab49@scorpio> References: <20100915151732.GA46569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20100915100848.2446ab49@scorpio> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:37:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:37:47 -0000 On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jerry wrote: > As per the Mozilla site: > > "Starting in Firefox 3.6, you also need the new Java plugin included in > Java 6 Update 15 and above." > > FreeBSD does not supply, nor support as far as I can decipher, that > version or any of the newer versions, the latest being version 6, update > 21. Nor, as I stated previously, has anyone stated definitively why. That's one of the problems w.r.t. Java on FreeBSD: I had to install openjdk6, which provides at least this level in order to run all services that Freenet provides (Freenet runs in degraded mode with java/jdk16, because that version is too old and contains a big XML-related vulnerability). But java/openjdk6 works just fine with Freenet and almost any Java program I could throw at it. I don't know about Firefox 3.6 plugins though. % java -version openjdk version "1.6.0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b20) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/