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