Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:49:49 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Epiphany with Java? Message-ID: <lenqb5$nnm$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402112055100.58708@macmini.ror.de> <20140212120117.5d0fd827.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402270859470.1018@macmini.ror.de>
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Volker Nebel wrote: > Hi everybody! > > On my macmini there is FreeBSD 10 running, and I want to use Epiphany as > my web browser. With Java. First I tried installing port java/icedtea-web, > until I noticed, this downloads firefox, and this is not the browser I > want to use. So I installed java/openjdk7. > Is this sufficient? How do I find out whether java is working with > epiphany? There is a test page: http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp > and this tells me: "We are unable to verify if Java is currently installed > and enabled in your browser." > In my browser settings I do have allowed Popup windows, activated > Plugins and JavaScript. I do not have a firewall. So there is nothing that > should prevent Java from working. But perhaps I need some other package or > what??? > Don't know if this will work as I don't know anything about Epiphany per se. The generic thing I've seen mostly in the past wrt to this is to look for wherever epiphany stores its user info somewhere in your home directory. Particularly a place where it might store plugins. A lot of times this is actually a directory named Plugins. Then hunt down the .so file which is the browser plugin. I believe with a JDK you get the compiler/dev tools together with the JRE, if the browser plugin is present it usually lives somewhere a few levels down under the JRE branch of things. If you find both, cd to the Epiphany plugins directory and do something like: ln -s /path/to/java/JRE/blah/blah/browser-plugin.so browser-plugin.so where you replace browser-plugin.so with the correct filename. Then when you start Epiphany it should scan the plugins directory and then have the JRE browser plugin available. Very generic. If Epiphany doesn't store plugins this way (eg in a users home directory) you may have to actually hunt down where it stores it's main functionalities under some lib directory somewhere and put the symlink there instead. -Mike
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