Follow Techotopia on Twitter

On-line Guides
All Guides
eBook Store
iOS / Android
Linux for Beginners
Office Productivity
Linux Installation
Linux Security
Linux Utilities
Linux Virtualization
Linux Kernel
System/Network Admin
Programming
Scripting Languages
Development Tools
Web Development
GUI Toolkits/Desktop
Databases
Mail Systems
openSolaris
Eclipse Documentation
Techotopia.com
Virtuatopia.com
Answertopia.com

How To Guides
Virtualization
General System Admin
Linux Security
Linux Filesystems
Web Servers
Graphics & Desktop
PC Hardware
Windows
Problem Solutions
Privacy Policy

  




 

 

Mozilla Java Plugin


Currently it is not possible to use a free Java Virtual Machine as a Mozilla plugin because most of the free JVMs do not yet support the Java AWT (Java GUIs). So the non-free alternatives from Sun, IBM, or Blackdown are required. This is unfortunate as it means that your system becomes dependent on software that you are unable to validate and view yourself, relying on very few others to provide trustworthy code.

An installation of Java using java-package will setup the appropriate plugins for Mozilla.

To manually link in a Java plugin running with an installation of, for example, j2sdk1.4.2_03 (from Sun and installed as /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_03 as described in Section 48.1) for Mozilla 1.5, link the appropriate library to the mozilla plugin directory:

  # cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
  # ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Then run Mozilla and visit about:plugins to ensure the plug in is found.

For firefox the procedure is the same except the link goes into /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins.


Subsections

Copyright © 1995-2006 [email protected]

 
 
  Published under the terms fo the GNU General Public License Design by Interspire