Sun Java Plugin 6 does not work in Firefox on F7

[Kam Leo]

On 8/14/07, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> This is a longshot.
>
> Try putting a hard copy of the .so in plugins/ instead of a soft link.
>
> I had very similar symptoms to yours, except with a flash plugin under
> Mozilla, a year or so ago.  For some odd reason it would simply not
> load the plugin if I used a soft link. I verified that the soft link
> pointed to the file.  I deleted .mozilla/pluginreg.dat each time I
> changed things and brought up mozilla.  Only the hard link worked.
>
> Dean

When installing plugins (Realplayer, Flashplayer and Sun's JRE) in F7
I could get various plugins to appear in one user account but not
another. I tried deleting the plugins.dat file but that didn't work.
Deleting the problem user's firefox directory got the plugins to
register.