Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:43:28 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Firefox and Java (new) Message-ID: <43282900.9030901@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <43281547.5060809@wilderness.homeip.net> References: <200509131548.20516.akbeech@gmail.com> <4327E8A6.30508@dial.pipex.com> <43281547.5060809@wilderness.homeip.net>
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Laurence Sanford wrote: > Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >> Beecher Rintoul wrote: >> >>> Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and >>> installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get: >>> >>> Applet testvm notinited >>> Loading Java Applet Failed >>> >>> >>> >> Your about:plugins looks the same as mine. Where is this java test >> site? >> >> --Alex >> > This is a little off the topic, specifically, but I have been > struggling with java, and other (flash) plugins and firefox myself. I > have very much the same information as has been discussed in this > thread in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins: > > total 0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 23 08:59 .firefox.keep > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49 Sep 14 06:35 flashplayer.xpt@ -> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 51 Sep 14 06:37 libflashplayer.so@ -> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Sep 14 07:07 libjavaplugin_oji.so@ -> > /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > > However, when I use the about:plugins page, it comes up essentially > blank, giving me only the information links about instaling plugins, > etc. I have been working under the assumption that I've done something > incredibly stupid, and attempting to find my error on my own, and have > the sinking feeling that it's probly staring me right in the face, and > I'm just too blind to see it. Do either of you (or anyone else for > that matter) have any advice or hints here, or does this seem as > strange to you as it does to me? I can only repeat what I said before. 1) Check that the symbolic link resolves correctly (ls -lL will show a file, not a link) 2) I'm not convinced that a linux-java is what you want. The other poster installed native java 1.4 and got it to show up as a plugin. That "works" for me. I can use at least one site that has a java applet and it doesn't crash all that often. Whether the linux-java can be made to work, I do not know. AFAIK, the notinited error being described above means a) Java *is* running b) the applet is doing something broken which popping up the Java console might help with. --Alex
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