[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 28/04/2015 22:00, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few days ago I downloaded the latest sources of openjdk8in order to build a 32bit binary.
> The build process finished and it created the required images. Now, there is no file
>
> libnpjp2.soso there is no Java plugin for Firefox. I have also checked jdk1.8.0_31
>
> and there is no file libnpjp2.so there! Now according to the following Web page:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/linux_plugin.html
>
> there is Java plugin for both i386 and amd64 systems! My simple question is:
> Where is the Java plugin?
>
Its now named libjavaplugin.so, the old libnpjp2.so is not supported.
But that new plugin does not work with the older firefox 31.x series,
so stay with Java 7 for that. It works with Firefox 37.