Java applets not starting F-9 , firefox-3

[Ken Gullaksen]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 20:50 +0200, Per Anton Rønning wrote:
 
> I think I have tried everything to fire up some browser applets in 
> some web-pages that I am visting frequently.
> Everything was OK under FC 5 - Firefox -2, but now it just does not 
> start.
> I expect a login screen as the first response to starting up, but it 
> does never appear.
> - I have installed the libjavaplugin_oji.so softlink in /home/<my 
> user>/.mozilla/plugins
> - I have tried both jre 6 and jre 5 (i have installed the .bin self 
> extracting file according to some advide I found)
> - I have Gooogled extensively to get hints, some were fond, but they 
> did not work.
> - I have checked /usr/java/jre1.5.0_16/bin/ControPanel, as well as the 
> /usr/java/ jre1.6.0_07/-ditto- and I cannot find anything wrong.
> - Right now the ..-oji.so points to jre1.5....
>
> - Perhaps Firefox-9 searces in some other location to find this link? 
> I have found no hint about that. In FC 5 this works like a charm.
>
> - One text I found hinted that this area is full of potential trouble, 
> and one issue is which version of C has been used to compile both Java 
> and Firefox.
>     
Is this 64bit or 32?

run 'uname -a' if your not sure