[CentOS] Centos 5.5 + firefox 3.6 and 64bit javaplugin (1.6u23)

Thu Feb 10 21:06:20 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Eero Volotinen wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] 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 at 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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