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-...
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@karsites.net wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Eero Volotinen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 + firefox 3.6 and 64bit javaplugin (1.6u23)
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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=...
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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