{"id":767,"date":"2010-05-26T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=767"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:40","slug":"java-plugin-for-firefox-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Java plugin for Firefox 3.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Mozilla dropped support on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Java_Interface\">OJI<\/a> (Open Java Virtual Machine Integration), the classic java plugin file <code>javaplugin-oji.so<\/code> doen&#8217;t work anymore for Firefox versions >3.6. Starting in <nobr><strong>Firefox 3.6<\/strong><\/nobr>, Mozilla will only support the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPAPI\">NPAPI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPAPI#NPRuntime\">NPRuntime<\/a> interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>However, a <nobr><strong>&#8216;Next-Generation Java plugin&#8217;<\/strong><\/nobr> (that&#8217;s what Sun calls it) is available in <nobr><strong>Java version 6 update 10<\/strong><\/nobr> or newer and supports the NPAPI and NPRuntime interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Installation is quite simple. Remove the symbolic links to <strong><code>libjavaplugin_oji.so<\/code><\/strong> from the Firefox plugins directory and replace it with to <strong><code>libnpjp2.so<\/code><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ncd ~\/.mozilla\/plugins\/\r\nrm -f libjavaplugin_oji.so\r\nln -s &lt;JRE&gt;\/lib\/i386\/libnpjp2.so . \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>where &lt;JRE&gt; is the path to your Java runtime environment.<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/javase\/6\/webnotes\/install\/jre\/manual-plugin-install-linux.html\">http:\/\/java.sun.com\/javase\/6\/webnotes\/install\/jre\/manual-plugin-install-linux.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Mozilla dropped support on OJI (Open Java Virtual Machine Integration), the classic java plugin file javaplugin-oji.so doen&#8217;t work anymore for Firefox versions >3.6. Starting in Firefox 3.6, Mozilla will only support the standard NPAPI and NPRuntime interfaces. However, a &#8216;Next-Generation Java plugin&#8217; (that&#8217;s what Sun calls it) is available in Java version 6 update 10 or newer and supports&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=767\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,4],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firefox","tag-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}