From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:01:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10901220901x4471ca15id03fd55c099d453e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901220853n3746b118q79066bad8ca0b8dc@mail.gmail.com>
>>>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 15:34 [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java? Grant
2009-01-22 15:45 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-22 15:49 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-22 16:40 ` Grant
2009-01-22 16:53 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-22 17:01 ` Grant [this message]
2009-01-22 17:18 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-23 13:43 ` Pariksheet Nanda
2009-01-23 14:31 ` Grant
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