Java not working in Firefox 3.6

[NoOp]

On 01/26/2010 09:34 AM, Jim Byenwa wrote:
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>> <snip>
> 
> The above discussion was about my i386 test machine, I can't get it to 
> work on my new amd64 machine, ie. about:plugins shows no Java plugin 
> loaded.  I tried it using both ~/mozilla/plugins and ~/firefox/plugins.
> 
> :~/firefox/plugins$ ls -l
> total 16
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jim jim    58 2010-01-25 22:43 libnpjp2.so -> 
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jim jim 15716 2010-01-15 16:41 libnullplugin.so
> 
> This seems to indicate that the link was established.
> 
> Just to further my education what does total 16 represent?
> 
> I am unsure what I did wrong.

I've already told you to *not* use ~/firefox/plugins. Period! The only
useful thing that you can possibly do with anything in that folder is to
delete the PITA default libnullplugin.so. Use ~/.mozilla/plugins instead.

There is no official 64bit builds for mozilla (long heated discussions
over on the mozilla support groups - seems there are "64bit build
machine resource issues). For the 64bit builds you need to use the
nightly's (same for SeaMonkey). Download:

<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2/>

firefox-3.6.1pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

That works well with 64bit java and flash.

Might I recommend while you are testing, that you also try SeaMonkey
(replaces both Firefox and Thunderbird). On the 64bit:
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/>

seamonkey-2.0.3pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Extract and use the same way that you did Firefox. That version also
supports the latest 64bit java & flash w/o issues (for me).
Info:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/features