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Thanks Simon that put me right on the trail of the problem See snip below Rick Simon Waters wrote: Yep 1.3 is ancient and thats the problem, the oji lib is not compatible with Mozilla 1.6.Rick Timmis wrote:I could do with a small pointer on this one. I am trying to install and enable the java plugin for Mozilla. Initially I ran the auto intall plugin from netscape, which failed on permissions, and I'm not going to try it as root.Unfortunately that is the way to install it from the GUI, logging in as root, not ideal, I assume you only need to run Mozilla as root not the whole desktop? Yes I think after downloading in Mozilla as root you need to restart Mozilla as root as well...<sigh>.So I read the docs from Sun and Installed the jre 1.3 rpm. additionally i followed the instructions (admittedly writtten for netscape) and created a symlink in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins to point to the appropriate library.Why 1.3 - it is ancient - 1.4 versions have the new plugin framework for Netscape 6 or Mozilla (the oji plugin) in the JRE download at SUN. I installed jre1.4 sym linked the latest gcc32 oji library and the problems solved I think some of the older plugins work with modern Mozilla's but that isn't the way to do it. Also I think I had to hack one of the common applet MIME-types as it wasn't recognised correctly when I had a "nearly right" configuration. Don't focus on one applet, but try the SUN website (java.sun.com), as theirs are likely to be set up right.Still no joy, I have googled and searched mozilla.org but this has produced no clues, which leads me to the conclusion I am missing something really simple Any ideas ??Make ample user of "help > About plugins" to see what is happening, use a recent version of Mozilla (1.5?/1.6) I went through this several times with Digichat, a proprietary Java applet run on a website I use, turned out it was just broken (but it was only noticable under JRE 1.4 - newer versions of Digichat are fine BTW). Wasn't till I tried JRE 1.4 on IE that I realised it was just the applet. Still I switched to JRE 1.3 and JRE 1.4 several times in Konqueror and Mozilla, and tried several different methods for Mozilla modules. Ideally your packaging system should do the JRE thing for you, I believe Debian uses the "/etc/alternative" method for JVM's, I haven't tried on my new Debian box (BTW Neil the Xfree86 upgrade in testing did the trick - and I reverted to testing from unstable because GNOME dependencies were bust in unstable - should have listened to you but fortunately there wasn't much extra to download). Basically I think I'm saying get uptodate in Mozilla, and JRE, and/or don't be afraid to run Mozilla as root for install purposes if it saves time. You are after all doing it as root to update a global configuration file, not mindlessly surfing as root. |