I just had a hardrive crash and had to redo my system, I run 2005 se I tried 2006 but the the start up screen was scrambled. Any I have been have trouble getting Java to work with firefox. I installed it many times, I even put the latest stable release of firefox on my computer. Firefox will not see the plugin. I have place the simbolic link many times. I'm not a newb, but my knowleadge is limited, can some one help.

When I've had these problems it's been fixed by copying or symtlinking the system .so java file to ~/.mozilla/plugins. But if you've already done that then I don't know.....

Jon

already did that with every plugin file

So you've smylinked it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins? what does show?

[creed4@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/src/firefox-installer/plugins/
total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 Nov 17 18:35 libjavaplugin_oji.so.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7696 Mar 14 2005 libmozsvgdec.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18840 Sep 20 16:46 libnullplugin.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26344 Mar 29 2005 mozplugger.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Nov 17 11:53 nphelix.so -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Nov 17 11:53 nphelix.xpt -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt*
[creed4@localhost ~]$

apperently, you didn't copy a symbolic link, but a Desktop Launcher, like the ones that KDE and GNOME use. A launcher is different because what it does is tells KDE or GNOME how to load that program. While a symbolic link is a file which refers to where another file is.

i'm not sure how to do it with KDE or GNOME, but using the in a terminal should do it

It didn't work

what was the standard output when you typed in that command?

[root@localhost creed4]# ls -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/src/firefox-installer/plugins/
136 /usr/java/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so*

/usr/local/src/firefox-installer/plugins/:
total 56
8 libmozsvgdec.so* 28 mozplugger.so* 0 nphelix.xpt@
20 libnullplugin.so* 0 nphelix.so@
[root@localhost creed4]#

Try:

sorry, but that didn't work either.
Heres the read out
[root@localhost plugins]# ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[root@localhost plugins]#

Whats funny, I didn't have a problem with the previous version

you used the "ls" command instead of the "ln" command. Retry it again, using the "ln" command

That's the correct output if the symlinking worked. Now when you startup your firefox do the Java plugins appear when you put in the address bar (remove the space between about and :plugins, its just this forum that does that)?

Thank you. I finally got it to work.

how did you get it to work may i ask?