Re: How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla?

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@nospam.net>]

Scarletdown wrote:
> I've installed Java and made a symlink in 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to where javaplugin.so is located,
> but whenever I try to access a dite that uses Java (such as the
> EZ-Board chat feature), I get "This page contains information of a
> type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the
> appropriate plugin.
>
> So even though I have the plugin installed, it doesn't seem to work
> with Mozilla or Firefox.  However, it works fine with Konqueror.
> What else do I need to do to get Moz to work with Java?

Is Java plugin listed if you navigate to 'about:plugins'?

This is what I have in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and it works (note the
'/ns610-gcc32' part):

libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Sarunas