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I'll seccond thios how hard would it really be to set this functionality in the rpm to migrate user setting over when upgrading ff/moz?<BR>
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On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:25 +0100, John Logsdon wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks to all that helped. It was of course the lack of a symlink since</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the new firefox was in a different directory.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It does make you wonder, though, what mozilla think they are doing.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Googling around there are many cases of people falling foul of the same</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">thing - perhaps I should have surfed before shouting. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Given all that has gone into moz/FF, enabling the plugin installer to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(a) inherit/replicate any old links when updating,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(b) search for common locations eg /usr/java,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(c) add a browse facility rather than jumping off to sun's site which is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not really appropriate and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(d) set up the symlink within the gui </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">really cannot be all that difficult.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If we want Linux to succeed as a desktop competitor to Redmondware, FF</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">should make it easier to install plugins and include them when making an</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">upgrade. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It may be alright on a Windows platform but installing plugins either in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">FF or mozilla - or I guess netscape - is a mess. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Bill must be laughing all the way to the next charity ball - bless him.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">John</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Maciej ¯enczykowski wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'd suggest making sure you have a link to the java plugin in the proper </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> directory, in my case (running mozilla with an old beta 1.5 java SDK - but </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> it should be much the same for firefox (which uses mozilla/plugins </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> directory if I'm not mistaken) and any newer java version)...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Jun 6 2004 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> /usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Cheers,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> MaZe.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Fri, 12 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 2005, John </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Logsdon wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > I need to run a Java-enabled Firefox on my CentOS4.1-powered laptop and it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > *was* running fine. Then yesterday I up2date'd the box and Firefox went</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6. And I lost Java.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > I can't seem to re-install it, whether from the original (1.5.0 I think it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > was) or the latest downloads.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > This is crucially important as I need to access my Dell RAC.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Can anyone advise how to get Java back. At the moment, I have had to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > reboot my laptop into Redmond-ware :-(((</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > TIA</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > John</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > <A HREF="mailto:j.logsdon@quantex-research.com">j.logsdon@quantex-research.com</A> <A HREF="mailto:a.einstein@relativity.org">a.einstein@relativity.org</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 <A HREF="http://www.quantex-research.com">www.quantex-research.com</A></FONT>
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