From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 22:46:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8CA16A401 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:46:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net (eastrmmtao05.cox.net [68.230.240.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B4F43D49 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:46:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.25.154]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060420224622.NCVI29406.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@serene.no-ip.org>; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:46:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3KMkM6E024941; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:16 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Gautham Ganapathy Message-ID: <20060420174616.73914a2a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1145508330.2145.4.camel@localhost> References: <1145508330.2145.4.camel@localhost> Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java applets asking for plugin in firefox 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: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:46:24 -0000 On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:15:30 +0530 Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi, > > I have jdk 1.5 built and installed on my system running 6.0-rel. > However, when I open a page containing an applet in firefox, i get a > message saying 'Additional plugins are required to display all the > media on this page'. o found a similar reports on the net, but no > solutions. anyone know how to get applets working in bsd? Simplest solution: use Konqueror. Rather than requiring the Java plugin, all you have to do is tell Konquerer where your local install of Java resides, and it will use this when needed. Such a simple approach. I don't know why all browsers don't work this way. -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"