Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

[Ian Malone]

On 7 October 2011 05:12, Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Per,
>
> Can you please try with the IcedTea-Web plug-in and let us know if it
> works? Installation is simple. First remove libnpjp2.so out of the way
> and then run as root:
>
> 1. yum install icedtea-web
> 2. alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 (select the #
>   corresponding to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/...)
>

Two tweaks here: it looks like he's using a completely 32 bit system,
in which case drop the .x68_64. Also it looks like Firefox has been
installed from tarball he may need to set up the plugin link manually.
It would be possible to connect it up to alternatives by symlinking
further from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so to the location
for the installed Firefox.

> And then restart Firefox. You can verify that it is set up by going to

-- 
imalone
> "about:plugins" in Firefox. You should see something like:
>
> IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.0.4 (fedora-1.fc15-x86_64))
>
> Please make sure libnpjp2 does not show up in that list.
>