At Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:35:35 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 1/28/2010 11:14 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > > This is all documented on the Wiki for anyone who cares to search: > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox > > > > [rhetorical] Why does this mailing list insist on reinventing the wheel > > rather than perform a simple search of existing documentation first? > > You sort-of expect end users to do that. A more relevant question is > why is it shipped broken in the first place? Is it just Red Hat trying > to maintain their reputation for making java as hard to use as possible? Java is an odd case: *Sun* has weird / non-compatible license issues, so RH (or CentOS) cannot just re-distribute the Sun JDK and appearently the openjdk does not include a web browser plug in (nothing RH or CentOS can do about that). And it appears that Sun decided to change the name and location of the 64-bit plugin, which is what threw me, esp. since in the *32-bit* Sun JDK (6u18) the *old* plugin library is just where I expected it to be. Why did Sun do *that*? You would have thought that they would have included a README there to explain what they did. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/