Firefox and java

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Feb 16 13:37:13 GMT 2005


John <john at starfire.mn.org> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote:

> > ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
> > Hope this helps.
> 
> BINGO!
> 
> Geez!  That's great - but how the HECK did you know this was the
> magic key?  This shouldn't be so ARCANE!!!
> 
> I'd have been looking for something in a "firefox" branch - in
> fact, I was just trying to find such a thing when your e-mail
> came.

The firefox port wilil make that link for you, automatically, if the
JDK is installed when you're building firefox.


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