Hi,
I recently fought with the java install not because it isn't easy, but because it didn't do it's thing correctly the first time. Anyway - first of all, get firefox at
www.mozilla.org - you can just run the file that you download by clicking it in the gui or ./firefox-installer in the folder - AFTER you extract it.
Once you've done that, the folder you want to keep an eye on is the <path>/firefox/plugins folder... because when you do the java install (I have done this on 5 machines and 3 times it was the same problem for me for some odd reason) - the file it links to in the final setup of the java plugin was getting copied there, but not completely - right filename, but 0kb. So I'd just delete it & run the ln -s (linking) command a 2nd time & bam it worked. Strange I know...
Here's the firefox download:
http://www.mozilla.org
Here's the java download:
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Here's the Instructions:
http://www.java.com/en/download/help...selfextracting
Here's the file it links to the firefox/plugins folder that gave me problems: libjavaplugin_oji.so - 131.9kb, not 0kb
Oh and the rpm never did work for me <shrug> so I use the other one