Java JRE is making firefox crash
Hi all, I've been using linux only for a couple of months, and I've still learning the basics.
Wanting to program in java (and run applets in my browser), I went and installed the JRE, and in the instructions I was told to make a symbolic link to the java plugin in the firefox plugin directory (libjavaplugin_oji.so was the file), however after doing so, I went to java.com to test to see if it worked, but the the test applet wouldn't run, so I gave up for the time, but when I went to YouTube, firefox crashed before playing a video. And I couldn't start it up except for in safe mode. After uninstalling firefox and reinstalling it it would start normally, but any site with flash or anything fancy immediately crashes firefox. I can't even access the homepage of LinuxQuestions.org (I'm dillo-ing it up right now). it spits out this error message when ran from the prompt:
$ firefox linuxquestions.org
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager
System error?:: Success
I go to tools->addons and there's no java plugin/extension listed. there used to be a java console, but there hasn't been one since I reinstalled it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could get firefox functional again? Ideally, with java support, but I'll take what I can get.
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.
~Peaches
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