[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 13 & Java

[Jonathan Adams]

where did you install jre1.7.0_07 ?

jadams at jadlaptop:/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls -l /usr/jdk/
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     bin            5 Oct  9 14:58 instances
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Oct  9 12:21 jdk1.6.0_35 ->
instances/jdk1.6.0_35
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Oct  9 12:21 jdk1.7.0_07 ->
instances/jdk1.7.0_07
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          11 Oct  9 12:21 latest -> jdk1.7.0_07
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     bin            4 May 26  2010 packages

jadams at jadlaptop:/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls -l /usr/java
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          10 Mar  9  2012 /usr/java -> jdk/latest

jadams at jadlaptop:/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins$ cd /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins

jadams at jadlaptop:/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls -l libnpjp2.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          34 Jun 22  2010 libnpjp2.so ->
/usr/java/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

I extracted my JDK into /usr/jdk/instances then created the symlinks
from the parent directory (/usr/jdk) to get the latest versions.

I need a 1.6 java to run SQLDeveloper ...

On 16 October 2012 17:38, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I updated to Firefox 13 some time ago.  I just discovered that it "disabled Java because it was out of date".
>
> I've installed jre1.7.0_07 per the  Oracle instructions (which are hopelessly out of date and stop at Firefox 4) and restarted Firefox.
>
> Firefox Tools->Add-ons->Plugins says "You don't have any add-ons of this type installed."
>
> There's a working symlink in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins to libnpjp2.so
>
> Any suggestions?  google didn't produce anything relevant and "learn more" from Firefox just wants to pimp things I don't want.  The OI Java install seems to be a bowl of symlink spaghetti.
>
> Is there something in the user directory that affects this?  I tried creating a new .mozilla tree, but ti didn't help.
>
> Thanks,
> Reg
>
>
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