success with Firefox 1.0 and Java

[Gene Smith]

Gerhard Magnus wrote, On 01/01/2005 09:02 PM:
> Perhaps some other newbie running Fedora 3 can benefit from this
> summary:
> 
> I've been trying to get the Java runtime environment to work with
> Firefox 1.0.  This is the version that comes with Fedora 3 -- it's from
> the package firefox-1.0-2.fc3 and its files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.
> 
> After much fiddling with this, I ended up two versions of the Java
> runtime environment installed in directories /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06
> and /usr/java/jrel.5.0.  I wanted to use the latter, more recent version
> 5.0 with Firefox.
> 
> I went to the directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7 where I found
> only the file libjavaplugin_oji.so.  Then, as superuser, I created a
> link in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0 directory: ln -sf
> libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so.
> Executing ls, the link libjavaplugin_oji.so should appear in blue -- if
> it appears in red and flashes this means the link has not been
> established successfully.
> 
> Firefox doesn't telegraph the news that its java plugin has been
> successfully installed.  A good place to go to test this is
> http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp -- if you can see the
> dancing Duke logo™ image animated in the applet, then the JRE is
> functioning correctly.
> 
> The main thing I've learned from all this is that unix will be merciless
> when a user confuses the letter "l" and the number "1".
> 
> Thanks for everybody's help -- and happy new year!
> 
> Jerry
> 
Yes, I see him and he moves but the top of his head is slightly cut off. 
Also my system description is cut off on the right in the box. But I am 
running a blackdown version for fc3 x86_64. -gene