Note: This post was originally written for Windows Vista 64-bit and Firefox 3. It still applies to Windows 7 64-bit and Firefox 3.5.I recently installed Windows Vista Business 64-bit, then installed the 32-bit version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and was amazed to find that it didn't work in Firefox 3. All I got was a blank space where the applet should have loaded.
Because there's no official 64-bit version of Firefox 3, I'm running the standard 32-bit edition (it works fine on 64-bit Windows). So, I need the 32-bit version of the Java RE. Here's how to make it work:
- Copy the following files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugins:
- npjpi160_11.dll (last 2 digits are the update version)
- npoji610.dll,
- npt.dll
- Open the Java test page to verify that it works.
If you haven't yet installed Java, or the steps above don't work, try this:
- Uninstall any existing version of Java from Control Panel, Programs and Features.
- Delete any Java plugins from C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugins. These are usually named np*.dll, but you can check which ones are Java-related by checking the file properties.
- Download the latest version of Java from Sun (or download the offline Java installer) At the moment, this is Java 6 Update 11.
- Try the first set of steps above.
- Mozilla Support: Using the Java plugin with Firefox
- MozillaZine Knowledge Base: Java
- wp.dembowski.net: Java on Vista 64 bit does not work
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17 comments:
Thanks for putting this out there. Helped fix a problem I had running 32-bit Java+Firefox on 64-bit Windows 7.
You're welcome! That's the reason I put technical posts on this blog; to spare others from the trouble I endured.
Well I simply skipped to the copying part, as I only had installed the latest Java. This seamed to be enough.
Beautiful! It is incredible how much speculation and misinformation is out there about this problem! It all boils down to the fact that the Java installer does not copy the three necessary files to the Firefox plug-ins directory! Thanks a million for figuring this out and posting it.
thanks it worked!
Thank you, this worked perfectly!
thanks!
Thanks a lot. It's ridiculous that this problem still exists. Every time Java updates itself it seems to break in FFX again.
Thanks a ton, wish I'd found your post sooner.
I wish I had found your post 3 days ago! Java had worked fine for me on my new Vista64 machine with Firefox3, then Java decided to update itself... Thanks again, worked like a charm.
Thanks also, I was pulling my hair our trying to figure out why this wasnt working. I reinstalled Java several times, as well as Firefox. In the end I did some google searching in desperation and found your blog post. Thanks! Annoying that Sun haven't fixed this blatant bug yet.
Thanks very much for the great and concise guide - Firefox works under W7-64 now!
Cheers.
Much appreciated mate. I must have trawled 20 pages all telling me the wrong info before I found this.
Oh wow finally!! Thank you bro this worked great, I was googling trying to find a solution to this and finally found one. Thanks again!
Thanks a million! So easy and yet so difficult if you're not an expert.
This is a perfect example of how the free internet community should work!
Thanks, worked great with update 13
I've posted this issue in the JAVA forums and we'll see their reply. (i.e. How to permanently fix, but it's really annoying)
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10726832�
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