Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin

[Rich Rudnick <rrudnick@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 08:42, martin f krafft wrote:
> Short summary:
> 
>   Mozilla            JRE                 Works?
>   ==============================================
>   1.2.1-2.bunk       j2re1.3             YES
>   1.2.1-2.bunk       j2re1.4             unknown
>   1.3-5              j2re1.3             NO
>   1.3-5              j2re1.4             NO
>   1.4-2              j2re1.3             NO
>   1.4-2              j2re1.4             NO
> 
> Why? And how to fix?
> 
> I am trying hard to get Java to work with Mozilla:
> 
> ii  mozilla-browse 1.4-2          Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
> ii  j2re1.4        1.4.0.99beta-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, St
> ii  j2sdk1.4       1.4.0.99beta-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition
<snip>
> What's the deal here? Has anyone gotten the Blackdown Java Plugin to
> work with Mozilla 1.4?

Short answer, no. According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html
mozilla needs 1.4.2.  I got it from sun's site and it does work.

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