Java browser plugin Broken on one login only

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 19:06 -0400, Jim Duda wrote:
> I have sun java jre 6.03 installed on my computer.
> 
> The libjavaplugin fails to work on one login only, it works for others.
> 
> I cannot figure out what is different about the one login.
> 
> In firefox, both java and javascript are enabled.
> 
> Attempting to go here:
> http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
> 
> Allows the applet to load and display info for all logins but one.
> 
> It must be some permission issue or something in a .* file in the user 
> login.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm stumped.

Check the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory for that account. Maybe you have
a broken Java plugin masking the real one.

Also, check about:plugins from within Firefox.

poc