jre Firefox plugin won't work.

[Piscium]

On 17 October 2010 18:39, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:

>>   i believe you can rename that (or delete it) and it will be recreated
>> but that probably wont help.
>
> /pluginreg.dat has all the same thing that shows up in about:plugins

Exactly, that file is a sort of cache. If the file is deleted (thereby
possibly getting rid of old junk), that forces Firefox to recreate it
by searching for plugins in all of its directories and populate the
new file with fresh data.

It does not always work, but it has on occasion helped me.