No, that isn't true at all...
Under both Fedora 12 and RHEL 5.4 I am using the 64 bit JDK... To get the Java plugin working, all I had to do -with the Sun JDK- was
cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/latest/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
And restart Firefox...
Of course, in this instance /usr/java/latest is a sym link to /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16
It works just fine for me... I'm sure I'd have similar results on CentOS :)
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Robert Heller wrote:
At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:44:52 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox? The SUN 1.6<mumble> JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm) does NOT include the Java web browser plugin library. java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm does not have one either. Should I install the *32-bit* SUN 1.6<mumble> JDK and use the 32-64 bit wrapper? I've searched the web and read the wiki (which only shows installing the 32-bit Java web browser plugin).
AFAIK, they stopped doing the plugin sometime last year, and the *only* workaround I've seen is to install Sun's Java.
But Sun's Java does NOT include the plugin in the *64-bit* JDK. There is only the *32-bit* plugin in the *32-bit* JDK. So installing Sun's Java is not an answer.
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