On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm a little surprised that I haven't heard anything about the java plugin 
> for firefox 3.6.
>
> From the articles I've read, it looks like firefox 3.6 and above only works 
> with the newer java plugin libnpjp2.so (not the older libjavaplugin_oji.so)

I discovered that too, but have had no problems with java since
I put in a sym link to the new plugin.
It turns out that the new plugin works with firefox 3.0.19 too
- pity we didn't discover this issue earlier.

> http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+Java+plugin+with+Firefox
>
> Because of this, I'm updating java-1.6.0-sun-compat to put the new plugin 
> where firefox can get it.  It should be in testing today.

> My question is this.
> Does anyone know of a way for firefox 3.6 to use the old plugin, incase some 
> users need to use the old plugin?

Sorry no. Given that 3.0.19 supports the new plugin
we may be passed the compatibility overlap :-(

Fedora 13 (updates) has an IcedTeaPlugin.so in
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-41.b18.fc13.i686.rpm - the
postinstall script does
  alternatives \
   --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so \
   /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so 16000

.. but the Red Hat 5 build of java-1.6.0-openjdk doesn't include
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin, otherwise I would have suggested
1) switching to OpenJDK
2) making java-1.6.0-sun-compat work the same way

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