From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 16:47:20 2011 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 E6DF5106566C for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=006427588b=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F1C8FC12 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 61332 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2011 16:47:19 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:vbr-info:user-agent:cleverness; s=ef93.4d94b017.k1103; i=johnl@submit.iecc.com; bh=Az/fO53Y+/vrJIDVygWqo+qEqq/ft+IZOHlMmuXzVMs=; b=V/jtjOqCJFQIQ6DctCRi0JAEYuFp/1AyMOns7KtuppvIyL7khSEIyQq49Am5Zypnztjw0FBoPlSlrMpEZFXdEACBvIzjPS6g+aSguRjHyQST7f2sq0Qcd/R3m9feX8vg/J+pu8NbBQxFrZ2rEKX04VGgYwikAYBib8yz1Q+y3NU= VBR-Info: md=iecc.com; mc=all; mv=dwl.spamhaus.org Received: (ofmipd johnl@64.57.183.62) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Mar 2011 16:46:57 -0000 Date: 31 Mar 2011 12:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: From: "John R. Levine" To: "Tim Kellers" In-Reply-To: <4D94A4E8.7070400@wallnet.com> References: <20110331150630.53670.qmail@joyce.lan> <4D94A4E8.7070400@wallnet.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Cleverness: None detected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4 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, 31 Mar 2011 16:47:21 -0000 >> This link explains it pretty well: >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 > Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. It was 3.6. Check the archives for considerable gnashing of teeth as we tried to figure out how to get Java working again. > ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ > was the missing step for me. Free bonus: if you use Chromium, it works there, too: ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/local/share/chromium/ Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly