====== Install the Java-Plugin for Firefox ======

To install the Java plugin for Firefox, you have to create a symlink from Firefox's plugin directory ''/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/'' to the file ''libnpjp2.so'' in the JRE's "lib" dir.

<code bash>
sudo ln -s \
  ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so \
  /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libnpjp2.so
</code>

Please note, that I tested this with Ubuntu 14.04, the "plugin" directory may be somewhere else on your system.

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