Firefox and java/jre plugin

S

sysman

Hello. I'm trying to figure out how can deploy some plugins into firefox.

I'm reading step by step guide at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html but I'm stuck in jre session. Though this guide, I had to download manually packages: diablo-latte-freebsd7-i386-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 and tzupdater-1_3_29-2010f.zip.

At the end of (successful) installation (portmaster java/diablo-jre16) no $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ has been created because currently I have: $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/ path.

So, I tried to create $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins and linking libjavaplugin_oji.so library correctly installed at /usr/local/diablo-jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/ but doing about:plugins I see only libnullplugin.so.

Next I tried to fit that library into global firefox plugin directory at /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ but without success, I still see only libnullplugin.so.

At this point I'm stopped because I dont understand which plugin directory being loaded by my firefox, anyone can help me?

Thanks
SYS
 
Read your post again ;)

So, I tried to create $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins and linking libjavaplugin_oji.so library correctly installed at /usr/local/diablo-jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/ but doing about:plugins I see only libnullplugin.so.
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Sorry but I'm still not understanding...
First, I tried to link library under $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins and didnt work.
Second, I tried to link library globally, under /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ and didnt work too.
Of course, I tried to link library under $HOME/.mozilla/plugins too, but didnt work because not correct firefox path in my home, correct path is $HOME/.mozilla/firefox .
 
Please pardon the multi-threaded hijack..this posts title seemed the more descriptive..

adamk said:
The java plugin won't work with the latest versions of firefox till the java ports are updated:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13805

Adam
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So, restating the OP's question in that thread,
aragon said:
Does anyone know if there's a timeline set for a Diablo JDK rebuild with the new NPAPI plugin enabled?
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Asking (again) because I'm a relative noob, and it seems like it may be better to wait for this than to go through any workarounds. Where might one monitor dev on this?


Thianks,
Brian
 
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