F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

[Claude Jones]

On Sun October 19 2008 12:12:35 am Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
> >> plus, once you have it installed, you can make 'relaycall.com' perminate
> >> to load every time.
> >
> > I installed noscript, then allowed 'relaycall.com' and IP address:
> > '12.x.x.x'
>
> NoScript is not going to help you get Java working.  g should have been
> more clear about that. I would recommend uninstalling it at least until
> you solve your original problem.
>
> As Nigel noted, you will probably have to install Sun Java in order to
> use your site.  There are many tutorials specifically about this, such
> as
> http://www.ilovetux.com/2008/05/fedora-9-sun-java-on-fedora-9-install.html
> .
>
> Matt Flaschen

I hope this question is related to the discussion, sufficiently. Since it 
pertains to switching from gcj to sun java, I think it does. I found several 
problems with that page you link to, and solved them, but, I'm not sure if 
what I did was correct. First, the version numbers included in the various 
commands have to be adjusted since the actual version you download from the 
site has progressed beyond the one that's used in the suggested commands - 
that's fairly trivial, but needs to be pointed out. Once I sorted that out, I 
could not find an elegant way to turn off gcj; my first inclination was to remove 
it, but, that led to a request to delete about 25 other packages from my 
machine for dependencies - I stopped that. Then I tried to remove the plug-in 
from Mozilla - creating the linked file to the java, as suggested by one of the 
commands on that linked page, had already produced a message that the file 
existed, so I suppose that libjavaplugin_oji.so was being used by gcj; I 
renamed that file and then ran the link command again - that appeared to be 
successful and produced the appearance of Sun Java in the plug-in list in 
Firefox; but, the gcj plug-in was still there, and attempts to use the ATT 
Relay site continued to fail; then I renamed a second plug-in in the mozilla 
plug-in folder called libjavaplugin.so - that didn't work, because it was 
simply a link to another *.so file somewhere I suppose, so gcj continued to 
appear in my plug-in list in Firefox - finally, I just created a folder inside 
the Mozilla plug-in folder called 'old' and moved the now renamed files 
'libjavaplugin_oji.so.gcj' and 'libjavaplugin.so.gcj' to this folder, and that 
finally solved the problem. Now, the only java that appears in my Firefox plug-
in list is the one from Sun, and the ATT Relay site works perfectly. 

So, my question is, was there some better way of accomplishing this end? If 
not, this is not what one could call a simple solution, and that page you 
linked to will definitely NOT get the desired result without a lot of hacking. 
I'm betting I came up with a kludge, and there must be a better way. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD
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