Firefox and Java Plugin on F15

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 05/05/2011 11:29 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> Before I go ahead and submit a BZ on this, has anyone else noticed that
> the Java plugin is not listed in Firefox on F15? If you do
> about:plugins, everything else you would expect to be there is. The Java
> plugin is visibly absent.
> 
> I've even tried adding the latest Java (Update 25) from Sun/Oracle.
> Everything works fine, except for the Java plugin itself.
> 
> So, I don't know why Firefox is missing this, but it clearly is not
> allowing use of either Sun/Oracle or the OpenJDK plugins. I'll BZ if no
> one else has noticed it. Otherwise, if there is an existing BZ that I've
> missed, please let me know and I'll add comments there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 

Chris,

Install icedtea-web

cd /usr/lib[64]/mozilla/plugins		put the 64 in there if you are in a
64bit install

run as root

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so .


That made java work for me, I'm guessing that alternatives is not
properly set up or something like that.

Kevin

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