Hi,

I am using PCQuest Linux (nothing but RedHat distribution and I presume that it is RH 9.0) 2005. While accessing a learing site, there was a requirement for installing java plugins and flash plugins. I have installed the java plugins and there was no problem. After installing flash plugins, the browser is not coming up.

Can any one, help me to come out of this situation. I went to plugins folder and removed the link created as per the directions given while installing. Still, the problem persists.

Thanks in advance,

hspk

If you launch the browser from a terminal, are there any error messages? Is there a browser still running in the background for some reason that needs to be killed?

Hi,

If I try to invoke firefox from a terminal, I am getting following error message.

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager

Thanks,
hspk

I have the same problem. I did the self extracting java1.5, I have the most recent firefox version, and I'm running slackware 10.1.

Go to the firefox folder and look for the pluginreg.dat file. Delete it. Now try to open Firefox.

If that does not work try opening Firefox in Safemode:
On Linux, you can go to your Terminal and run:
/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode

If that does not work then you need to create a new profile:
"On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the the -profilemanager switch, e.g. ./firefox -profilemanager (this assumes that you're in the firefox directory)."
This works for me /usr/bin/firefox -profilemanager
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

Firefox Tips

Hi,

I had exactly the same problem with mozilla-firefox-1.0.3 on Mandriva LE 2005. I just discovered that I had a bad symlink to my Java plugin, it pointed to /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so instead of /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so.
Check that out!

Does your symlink to the java plugins point to the good plugin ???

Problem solved for me now...

regards,

Bernard Tremblay

I got the same problem on Mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva LE 2005 after replacing Java 1.4.2 with 1.5 using the self extracting rpm. It affected both Firefox 1.04 and Netscape 7.2. Removing the symlink to the plugin at /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
cured the problem. The previous version's plugin worked fine for me, so I'll probably reinstall it.

"INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager" is the typical output of a faulty jva runtime environment... did you

ln -s /usr/java/<your java>/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

correctly??? did you do it with normal unprivileged user??? its not a problem of newer or older java-jre... trust me... they all work well in all distributions!

apreston post is dated 07-06-05, either it's fixed or he's moved on. Nice bumpage.

And yet he posted a fix that I, for one, have not seen before. So in that sense, good bumpage.