Firefox - exits when trying to load java [solved]

[Jas]

i have the 'libjavaplugin_oji.so' in my firefox plugins folder, copied it from '/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32' (i have like 6 of the plugin.so files but this is like the only one that lets firefox start at all) and when i go to somewhere like uh yahoo chat, it just closes

what am i doing wrong? o_O

[Steve Scrimpshire]

It should be a symlink and not copied over. As root:

 

cd /usr/lib/<<firefox directory>>/plugins

rm -f libjavaplugin_oji.so

ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so

 

And, actually, since mdk 10.1, my firefox plugins don't exist in /usr/lib/<<firefox directory>>/plugins but in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and that is where they work.

 

omar@laptop.mdk /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins 1426 23-Jan-05
> pwd
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
omar@laptop.mdk /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins 1426 23-Jan-05
> ls -l
total 2548
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     856 May 27  2004 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   13872 Aug 30 03:12 gxineplugin.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2092960 May 27  2004 libflashplayer.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 Dec 12 22:39 libgcc_s.so -> /lib/libgcc_s.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      59 Dec 12 23:21 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      42 Dec 12 23:22 libjava.so -> /usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      41 Dec 12 23:22 libjvm.so -> /usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/libjvm.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   26320 Jan  6 01:30 mozplugger.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  225440 Oct  5 15:48 mplayerplug-in.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   79864 Aug  3 02:30 nppdf.so*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    4139 May 10  2001 raclass.zip
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  129360 Mar  4  2004 rpnp.so*

Edited January 23, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire

[Jas]

ah thanks, got it working now ^_^