[CentOS] Firefox and Java on CentOS 4.1

[John Logsdon]

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
> >
> > John Logsdon                               "Try to make things as simple
> > Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK         as possible but not simpler"
> > j.logsdon at quantex-research.com              a.einstein at relativity.org
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