firefox and java

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 15:02 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: 
> 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.

OK, makes sense.  The closest I could find to "firefox/plugins" was the
directory /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1.  I created a subdirectory "plugins"
and put the link
to /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so there.  I
still keep getting these perplexing firefox messages (now from several
webpages.)

Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.
Install Missing Plugins

Plugin Finder Service.  Available Plugin Downloads.  The following
plugins are available: Sun Java J2SE50 (box is checked).  Press Next to
install these plugins.

Completing the Plugin Finder Service.  Firefox finished installing the
missing plugins: Sun Java J2SE50.  Not Available.  Manual Install
(button)

...and "Manual Install" takes me back to the J2SE 5.0 downloads page
(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp) where I have already
downloaded "JRE 5.0 Update 1" (Download JRE)