Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

[Pariksheet Nanda <pariksheet.nanda@gmail.com>]

Use icedtea from the java-overlay. Works beautifully for me on ff3

Pariksheet

On 1/22/09, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
>> >>>> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit
>> >>>> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer
>> >>>> works.  Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for
>> >>>> java to work?
>> >>>
>> >>> Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser
>> >>> plug-in until very recently.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java
>> >>
>> >> That sounds great.  Is it set up in portage yet?  If so, can you tell
>> >> me a package name?
>> >
>> > Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've
>> > read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from
>> > the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre
>> > installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins
>> > directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last
>> > time I ran into java on the web.
>>
>> Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that.
>>
>> - Grant
>
> or just use konqueror which does not need java-plugin to display&use java
> since it can use java directly.
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