[ale] Firefox-3.6.3 and Java

[Cy Kurtz]

I was having the same problem. (Mandriva .. Gnome .. Firefox 3.63). I
pasted this symbolic link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

Voila, java!

Thank you,
Cy Kurtz

 On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 11:39 -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:30, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > I recently updated my SuSE-10.1 laptop and found the new Firefox update
> > had lost Java. At that point I went ahead and updated to Firefox-3.6.3
> > figuring I might as well start higher on tree. I similarly updated my Java
> > to jre1.6.0_20. Unfortuately I can't enable a plugin with this
> > combination.
> >
> > I soft-linked the jre plugin to the 'plugins' directory of my -3.6.3, but
> > it is never detected nor used. I tried clearing the cache in
> > Prefrences>Advanced panel, links in ~/.mozilla/plugins and
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins, and browser restarts, all without success.
> >
> > Any ideas how to crack this nut?
> 
> 
> In the later Fedora releases, the java plugin is named differently
> than the older name - libnpjp2.so, I think
> 
>