firefox 3.6 + jre1.6.0_18 not loading the java plugin
 

I have FireFox 3.6 installed along with several 3.5.x versions on OpenSuSE 11.0. I have made the usual link in .../plugins/ :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 2010-01-31 17:12 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_18/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

just as I have done for prior versions of FF, but java is not working, about:plugins does not show the java plugin as being loaded, but other plugins are loaded ok. What's the problem with FF 3.6 and jre1.6.0_18 ?

I will have to revert to FF3.5.7 - where the exact same configuration works perfectly - until this gets sorted. Thanks for any help.

why not just install the latest java rpm and everything gets configured automatically from:-

http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/suse/

If you are using the 64 bit version, the java 64 bit rpm works fine

I've tried that (added the repo via yast2) and it made no difference at all. So I changed the sym-link in .../plugins/ to :
libnpjp2.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

and now the java plugin is working fine in FF3.6.