firefox and java

[jim lawrence]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:52:41 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch
<mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:37:06PM -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to have "firefox-1.0" and "firefox-0.10.1" directories
> > > under /usr/lib although the Firefox version that's executing is 1.0.  Do
> > > I need to uninstall anything in order to get this to work.
> >
> > "Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins
> > directory.
> 
> In some very old messages I seem to recall that
> a copy of the file was needed not a symbolic link.
> 
> There was no explanation but I suspect that the security
> model of Java can make following links more 'interesting'
> than normal.  This link .vs. copy issue can also be important
> for chroot'ed environments.  Since I do not know how Java
> manages it's sandbox/ security model there are a number
> of things to pay attention to.
> 
> An advanatage of links is that only one file needs to be updated.
> Chroot'ed areas need to be inspected for outdated binary objects
> that you will have noted in your system notebook.
> 
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which version of java do you have?  
I installed the latest  1.5  
>I found it here
>    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
>after starting here
>    http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp
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