f8 firefox and jre plugin

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 12, 2007 12:56 AM, François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I don't know why firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8 doesn't recognise the sun java
> plugin libjavaplugin_oji.so from sun jre package for linux.
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> I installed jre1.6.0_03 under f8, then soft linked
> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
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> in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
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> but, firefox does not mention it while I call about:plugins
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> Why?
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> Thanks
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> François Patte

That used to work for me. Placing the link in
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins/ got the plugin to show up in
about:plugins.