Hey there!
the newer plugin should work with latest Firefox , just configure the
path correctly and you are set ,or use a symlink.
check out this fine article
http://koolinus.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/enable-java-plugin-on-firefox-with-centos-or-rhel-64bit/
what is your uname -a ? , maybe you have a repo that has it.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> From: Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@xxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: Centos 5.5 + firefox 3.6 and 64bit javaplugin (1.6u23)
>
> snip
>
>> Looks like firefox is 32bit version, not 64bit version, but 32bit java
>> 1.6.u23 still fails.
>>
>> about:plugins just says no plugins are installed. any clues?
>
> Yep ;)
>
> I had the same problem. It appears the name of the java
> plugin has now changed. Also it lives in an obscure place.
>
> In a nutshell - You need a symlink from your mozilla
> plugins directory to the JAVA plugin file, which is now
> called libnpjp2.so
>
> [ajb@stxsl /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins]$
>
> OLD JAVA PLUGIN:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 May 24 15:36
> libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> /usr/java/default/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
>
> NEW JAVA PLUGIN:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 24 15:57 libnpjp2.so ->
> /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
>
>
> Please see this forum link for all the gory details:
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=27062&forum=38&post_id=111090#forumpost111090
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Keith Roberts
>
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