[wplug] setting up firefox to use usbdisk java?

Nathan Embery nembery at met-net.com
Thu Mar 12 09:29:15 EDT 2009


Can't you just ln -s the files to firefox/plugins ?

-Nate

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:49 -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
> I need to access my VPS's VNC over the web but when I try to connect
> it says I need a plugin and prompts me to manually install a Java
> Runtime Environment (JRE). I only have like 10MB of space on the
> ramdisk I run (I use LiveCD since my hard disk controller died and my
> BIOS is not USB-aware) so I downloaded jre-6u12-linux-i586.bin and
> unpaced it on my usbdisk:
> 
> $ ls /media/usbdisk/home/sdg/java/jre1.6.0_12
> 
> bin        javaws  LICENSE  plugin  THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt
> COPYRIGHT  lib     man      README  Welcome.html
> 
> The firefox running off my LiveCD is 1.5.0.3 which stores its files in
> /root/.mozilla/firefox in the ramdisk partition.
> 
> Does anyone know exactly how I can tell firefox to use the Java files
> and plugins in /media/usbdisk/home/sdg/java/jre1.6.0_12 ?
> 
> Zach
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