Re: [CentOS] Need Java plugin for Firefox in CentOS 5.3

In a highly frustrated moment I wrote:

Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a suitable plugin. I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the following packages installed:

firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.i386.rpm
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.i386.rpm

OK, never mind. I've got jre-1.6.0_05-fcs installed again now, and all is well. Now I remember what happened. Back on Aug. 8, yum was acting all wonky and insisted that the java-1.6.0-openjdk update conflicted with the jre package. I'm not seeing that conflict any more, and jre-1.6.0_05-fcs coexists just fine with java-1.6.0-openjdk.