Ubuntu
sun-java6 package

java browser-plugin in firefox 3 doesn't work

Bug #199947 reported by CProof
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Bug Description

We tried everything but we weren't able to install the java-browser-plugin for Firefox 3 in Hardy Heron Alpha 6.
We tried Java 6 and Java 5 but both don't work.

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nyékhelyi gábor (n0gabor) wrote :

Temporary solution:

    cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

    ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so . <–note the “dot”

Taken from here: http://coreythompson.com/2008/02/26/hardy-java-firefox-3/

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Morten Siebuhr (msiebuhr) wrote :

I can confirm that the above solution work for me as well.

(Though I first tried to copy it to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/, which made the Adobe flash work. But to no avail...)

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