Firefox Java Plugins

[Shawn Badger]

I just used the fedora-helper script to get my Java working properly. It
also adds mp3 support plus much more. It also works on 7 by just changing
the version in the script to be 7 instead of 6. You can find it at
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_Helper.html



On 9/1/07, Harold Michels <hmichels01 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  I am running Fedora Core 6.
>
> Core 6, coming out of the box runs Firefox version 1.5
> I up graded it to version 2.0
> This was early days in my use of the system.
> I did not know how to upgrade properly, and probably still do not as I
> have
> to let yum do it automagically.
> I found out afterward that Fedora does not like and is not supporting
> version 2.0.
> I don't know exactly where the new version of Firefox went to. RPM put it
> somewhere.
> I have managed to set up shortcuts to it that work to launch version
> 2.0.0.3.
> When the system launches the program it launches Firefox version1.5.
> Into this mix I am trying to get Java plugin to run in Firefox 2.0.0.3.
> Per the web site I am supposed to create a symbolic link to the java .so
> file
>    "libjavaplugin_oji.so"
> This is in the download directory which in turn is in my home directory.
>
> It is there because I do not understand how Linux handles the files as to
> where they are supposed to be stored. In spite of many hours of research,
> I
> still find my self very ignorant. It almost looks like it does not matter.
>
> If this the case I stand astonished.
>
> At any rate, per instructions from Mozilla I created a symbolic link to
> the
> target file and put it in the .mozilla/plugins folder. After restarting
> Firefox, I still do not find java in my plugin window "Tools | Add Ins"
>
> I can see many things I may have done wrong, but I am not sure how to fix
> them.
>
> I would like to get Java running so I can participate in Alan's Robocode
> demo.
>
>
> Harold
>
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