[CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

Mon Sep 18 14:35:40 UTC 2017
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
> On 15.09.2017 00:59, Larry Martell wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
>
>>>> This is what I get from that:
>>>>
>>>> application/x-java-vm IcedTea class,jar
>>>
>>> That's OpenJDK instead of Oracle.
>>
>> Do you know how I can associate IcedTea with Oracle's JRE?
>
> You can try to replace the icedtea plugin with the one from Oracle.
> As i wrote in my first mail. Try to locate the plugin folder of your
> firefox installation (maybe in your ff profile or system wide in the
> firefox folder), backup the old plugin and place there a symlink to the
> oracle plugin (/usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so).

My old version of FF does not have plugin folder, it has a file called
pluginreg.dat that looks like this:

IcedTeaPlugin.so:$
/usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so:$
:$
1462942245000:0:0:$
The <a href="">IcedTea-Web Plugin</a> executes Java applets.:$
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.2 (rhel-1.el6-x86_64)):$
38
0:application/x-java-vm:IcedTea:class,jar:$
1:application/x-java-applet:IcedTea:class,jar:$
2:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
3:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
4:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
5:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3:IcedTea:class,jar:$
6:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
7:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
8:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
9:application/x-java-applet;version=1.3:IcedTea:class,jar:$
10:application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
11:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4:IcedTea:class,jar:$
12:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
13:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
14:application/x-java-applet;version=1.5:IcedTea:class,jar:$
15:application/x-java-applet;version=1.6:IcedTea:class,jar:$
16:application/x-java-applet;version=1.7:IcedTea:class,jar:$
17:application/x-java-applet;version=1.8:IcedTea:class,jar:$
18:application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.8.0_50:IcedTea:class,jar:$
19:application/x-java-bean:IcedTea:class,jar:$
20:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
21:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
22:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
23:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3:IcedTea:class,jar:$
24:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
25:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
26:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
27:application/x-java-bean;version=1.3:IcedTea:class,jar:$
28:application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
29:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4:IcedTea:class,jar:$
30:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1:IcedTea:class,jar:$
31:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2:IcedTea:class,jar:$
32:application/x-java-bean;version=1.5:IcedTea:class,jar:$
33:application/x-java-bean;version=1.6:IcedTea:class,jar:$
34:application/x-java-bean;version=1.7:IcedTea:class,jar:$
35:application/x-java-bean;version=1.8:IcedTea:class,jar:$
36:application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.8.0_50:IcedTea:class,jar:$
37:application/x-java-vm-npruntime:IcedTea::$


How would I add /usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so to that?

>>> /usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/bin/jcontrol
>>
>> Ah, yes, I do have that. It's the same as running ControlPanel - that
>> is where they had me try puttin the IP address of the IMM in the
>> exception site list.
>
> OK and did your set the security setting to the lowest one?

The only 2 choices are "High" and "Very High" - it was already on High