Firefox 1.0-6 + Java SDK 1.4.2_04 = Crash

[Gustavo Seabra]

John Hodges wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just installed FC3 last night, got Firefox 1.0-6 via yum update. I 
> then installed Java SDK 1.4.2_04 and symlinked /usr/java/j2 ... 
> ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins. I 
> check about:plugins and the plugin appears to be loaded correctly. 
> Whenever I try to load a page containing a Java applet, however, the 
> browser crashes. I tried uninstalling Firefox 1.0-6 and going back to 
> whichever version shipped with FC3, but to no avail; still crashes. I 
> tried googling the problem but only got page after page of browser 
> crashes due to people copying the plugin rather than symlinking it. 
> Has anyone else seen this? Am I missing something rather obvious?
>
> Cheers,
> J

You may have installed the wrong plugin version. In my case, Firefox is 
working well with the Java Plugin 1.5.0, but I Java to point it to: 
(note that it is *not* the ns7-gcc29/ folder, but just ns7)
/usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

in your case, you may have a file like:
/usr/java/j2 ... ns6/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Try this one.

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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
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