firefox and java

[Ryan D'Baisse]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:56:53 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse
<ryan.dbaisse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:47:00 +0000, Gerhard Magnus
> <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get the java plugin working with Mozilla Firefox running
> > under Fedora 3.  I believed the Java Runtime Environment 5.0 has been
> > installed successfully in /usr/java/jrel.5.0.  I put a link to the
> > file /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> > in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> >
> 
> 
> If you are using Firefox, you would want to put the link in the
> "firefox/plugins" directory... not mozilla's plugin directory.
> 


I should point out that I'm a Linux/Fedora newbie.  So, I may be
wrong.  However, I am running FC2 with Firefox v1.0.  I installed
Firefox in the following location:

     /usr/local/bin/firefox-1.0

Therefore, my plugins directory, where I created the link, was:

     /usr/local/bin/firefox-1.0/plugins

I'm not entirely sure if that is where I *should* have installed the
app.  Still, I created the link in the plugins directory above and it
works flawlessly for me.

I should also admit out that I spent an hour trying to figure out why
my link wasn't working... until I realized I was creating it in the
"mozilla/plugins" directory.  For some reason, when I installed Java,
I just went directly to mozilla and never stopped to think that I was
using Firefox.  I don't think I'll ever make THAT mistake again.  ;-)

R/S
Ryan