FC4 Firefox/Java

[Shantanu Shah]

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Does the new FC4 Firefox automatically handle
> downloading Flash and Java
> plugins ?  If not, what is the simplest way to do
> this - I have watched
> a lot of stuff go by about Java in the last few
> days, but assumed this
> was for stand-alone Java applications rather than in
> the browser - is
> that correct ?
> 
> Jonathan

By default FC4 does not ship with Java or Flash
plugins. 

To install: 

* Download the java plugin JRE 1.5 Update 3 from sun
from : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp.
Download the Linux self extracting file (ends with
.bin). Do not download the .rpm package! Read the
Fedora Core 4 release notes if you want to know why.

* Run #chmod +x jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin and then
#./jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin to install the plugin.

* Move the package to /opt/ directory by running #mv
jre1.5.0_03 /opt/

* Next make a symbolic link for firefox to recognize
the plugin. #ln -s
/opt/jre1.5.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
More details at:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux

* To install the flash plugin, just visit any page
with flash content on it. Firefox shows a message on
top of the page saying that some plugins are required
for the page. Click on the link and install flash. 

From:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/install_linux.html

Enjoy!
~Shan

***
Shantanu Shah
theashworld at yahoo.com