[CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

Mon Sep 18 18:11:00 UTC 2017
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
> On 18.09.2017 16:35, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>> My old version of FF does not have plugin folder, it has a file called
>> pluginreg.dat that looks like this:
>
> i doubt that. Please look into
>
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. i'm quite sure
> that these directories also exist in you ff v24. pluginreq.dat should
> only cache the plugin informations and can be renamed.
>
> It's also possible to store your plugin in your profile if you want to
> install the plugin only for your account. in this case you can either
> use ~/.mozilla/plugins (for all profiles) or [Profile directory]/plugins
> for a specific profile.

In /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins there is a symlink from libjavaplugin.so
to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
I changed that to point to
/usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so but I got the exact same
results.
I also tried renaming the pluginreg.dat file. No joy.