[CentOS] how to implement java in firefox ?

[mark]

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> I have some pb for running java on my system with Firefox 3.0.12
>>> System centos 5.3 - kernel 2.6.18-128 x86_64
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>> If you have  sun java 1.6 .*  installed on a 32 Bit system you need to
>> create a link from libjavaplugin_oji.so to one of your plugin
>> directories such as /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  Once this is done you
>> should see something similar to the following in about:plugins
>>
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> 
> I want to resurrect this thread..... Some time ago, I got the JRE, but
> had the same  problem as the OP.     This box is CentOS 5.3   (32 bit)
> fully updated. Firefox 3.04.14.   I have jre1.6.0_13 installed.   In
> usr/lib/mozilla/plugins   when I make the link, as the root user, the
> permissions seem to be the same as for the link for libflashplayer.so
> but when I go back to my regular user account and launch Mozilla
> Firefox, it crashes. Is that because I had the java.com site open in
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The problem is probably with flashplayer and firefox. Both with firefox 3.0.14 
and 3.5.3, if I tried to view a flash video, such as street view from google 
maps, it crashed firefox, hard, 100% of the time. I reported this as a bug last 
week - bug 515672 - and they finally tracked it down the other day. Turns out 
there's an undocumented dependency on libcurl, so if you install the curl rpm - 
both, if you're running 64-bit, that fixes it.

Heh - it even caused their crashreporter to crash, because *it* needed it as well.

	mark
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