Hi Martin Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install. However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ?
forgetting everytime that gmail doesn't handle mailing lists well. make a symlink from your JRE_HOME (in your case the same as java home) to you mozilla plugins directory e.g ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/<profile>/plugins paths may differ but in general that's the manual way how to do that. Also I suggest that you make a symlink something like ln -s ~/actual_java_version ~/java this way you will have a stable JAVA_HOME and just need to replace the symlink ~/java points to everything else will follow automagically then (which was the case when i was using linux as a desktop system on all the boxes i used, so it seems quite stable)
Cheers for any assistance Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"