I’ve spend some time today trying to figure out how to enable the chromium browser to run the latest version of sun..erh, oracle java. Apparently chromium reads the .mozilla/plugins folder… This i how I got things to work

Installing java

Download a java 7 without an installer from java.com. Untar this in /usr/local

# cd /usr/local
# sudo tar xzf ~/Downloads/jre-7u13-linux-x64.tar.gz

And update alternatives:

# sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java "java" /usr/local/jre1.7.0_13/bin/java 1062
# update-alternatives --config java

Install the Firefox Plugin

# mkdir -vp ~/.mozilla/plugins

32-Bit version:

# ln -s /usr/local/jre1.7.0_13/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

64-Bit version:

# n -s /usr/local/jre1.7.0_13/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

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