Firefox 3.6 and Java ?

[Richard T C Farnes]

On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:56:03 John Levine wrote:
> I gather that Firefox 3.6 still doesn't work with Java, since the
> glue hasn't been updated.  Is anyone likely to be working on this?
>
> I'm willing in principle, although my knowledge of both Firefox and
> Java internals is, ah, somewhat limited.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>I also have this problem with the installation of Firefox. The installation 
process searches for files which it cannot find. When I search for  them on 
websites for Java I cannot find some of the particular files it asks for. It   
seems that the version of Firefox I find  for FreeBSD is not  the latest 
Firefox version. So it wants java programmes that are too old  and not found 
on the java websites anymore. 
Richard.