Java applet not working in FireFox

[Stefan Bruda]

At 16:23 -0400 on 2004-10-7 Jim Hart wrote:
 >
 > I have FireFox 0.92 and IBM's Java for PPC installed. The java plug-in
 > is symbollically linked into Firefox's plugins directory. When I do
 > "about:plugins" in Firefox, it shows the plug-in as being available,
 > listed thusly:
 > 
 > Java(TM) Plug-in Blackdown-1.3.1-02c-FCS

I believe that newer Mozilla-based browsers do not work with 1.3.x
JREs, you need instead a JRE 1.4.x plugin... which is not available on
the PPC platform.  Indeed, the IBM JRE (or for that matter JDK) does
not offer a browser plugin, and the Blackdown guys do not offer a
1.4.x JRE/JDK for PPC.

The Mozilla foundation is aware of all of these as far as I know, and
a fix may be forthcoming though I do not know any details.

There have been reports of putting IBM JREs and Mozilla-based browsers
together.  You need GCC 3.4.x for these.  I cannot vouch for this
combination, I did upgrade a couple of weeks ago to GCC 3.4 but I did
not have the nerve to recompile Mozilla...

References:
    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1482291
    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=199454

Stefan

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