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.
