[CentOS] how to implement java in firefox ?

Fri Sep 25 15:12:18 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

> Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>> When I tested my java config on
>>>> http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1
>>>> <http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1> I
>>>> have always the message that plugin missed : Java Runtime Environnemtn
>>>> is not present.
>>>>
>>>> What I need to do for implemented full java in firefox ?
>> <snip>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10-b33
>>>
>>>    File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>>    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> 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
>> the browser, before  making the link as the root user? I removed the
>> link, temporarily.  What do I need to do, to make the link work
>> properly?      TIA!
>
> Gee, flashplayer....
>
> I reported a bug to the firefox team early last week. *Every* time I tried to
> use flash under either 3.0.14 or 3.5.3, firefox crashed. Hard.
>
> They *finally* found the bug: there's an undocumented dependency on libcurl, so
> if you install the curl rpm (both, if you're running 64-bit), it'll work.

Mark: Thank you. I am running CentOS 5.3    32 bit. Do I need to yum
install libcurl or libcurl and curl? TIA! Lanny