Hello,

I can't get the JAVA plugin to work on firefox on my RedHat/Scientific Linux machine (x64). First, Firefox doesn't find any available plugins automatically, but downlowding, extracting and installing the appropriate file from the linked java homepage according to instructions should do the trick. Or?

Java page: http://java.com/en/download/linux_ma...&host=java.com


I've enabled Java in Firefox preferences and all. But Firefox doesn't seem to recognize that the plugin is installed.

I saw a similar thread about this problem, so it doesn't seem to be altogether unique. Does someone know what's wrong? And how it can be helped. I'm kind of dependent on being able to watch rotatable images...

Prethanks,
matslinder

You need a symbolic link made, from the java plugin, to your $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins directory. Wherever your Java got installed, search in it, and the plugin will be in there, so find that path, then

ln -s <path and filename of java plugin> $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/<filename of plugin>

Restart Firefox.

Ok, I've tried it. but it still doesn't work, unfortunately. One possible reason is that I don't know exactly which file is the plugin - or if I should link to the whole directory.

I can't find any file denoted "*plugin" or anything firefox-related in my /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/ directory. So we've assumed that the /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/bin/java file is the correct one. Plus we've tried linking to the whole directory. However, no response from Firefox.

Any clues?

/Mats

Yes, read the docs that came with Java

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnote...all-linux.html

The problem is when Firefox detects that it's missing the Java plugin, it prompts you to install it, which of course requires manual intervention (why?), then it takes you here:
http://www.java.com/en/download/linu...t=www.java.com

If you click any of the 'instructions' links for those distros, they specify the wrong file to symlink (libjavaplugin_oji.so)

The URL in the previous post is correct (relinked below), but it is not the one Firefox leads you to by default. Not really Linux's fault, of course.. more of an artifact of sloppy transition from Sun->Oracle.
http://java.com/en/download/linux_ma...&host=java.com

You do realize that this thread is two years old, right??

Yep. Which makes it even more poignant. The site Firefox sends you to is less useful than the Oracle one you posted above, even though it's been around for at least 2 years and is updated regularly (considering it has the latest version of Java on it).

Also, when I first read this article and saw your post, I assumed I was already looking at the "docs that came with Java". Eventually I saw your link was different and more correct than the one I was using (the one next to the link I used to download Java).