firefox and java

[janne]

ons 2004-11-17 klockan 18:55 -0600 skrev thephotoman:
> Jan Morén wrote:
> > ons 2004-11-17 klockan 12:13 -0500 skrev Michael P. Soulier:
> > 
> >>I have a web app that I have to interact with at work via java applets.
> >>Using Firefox 0.9.3 that comes with warty, and 1.0 that I downloaded
> >>myself, I'm having problems getting the applet in question to come up
> >>consistently. 
> > 
> > 
> > What happens, exactly?
> > 
> > I have a java applet I need to use occasionally as well, and I haven't
> > been abloe to get java to work under Firefox at all for the past week or
> > two. Whenever I try any applet, it just freezes Firefox.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Okay, here's how you do it:
> 
> Get Java and install it wherever.  Make sure it's the binary and not the 
> RPM.
> 
> Then, you need to execute the following commands.  You need to be root 
> for this to work if you're using the deb package version of Firefox:
> 
> # cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> # ln -s /path/to/java/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
> libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> Make sure you type libjavaplugin_oji.so the second time, or else it 
> won't work.

OK, just to be clear - that is what I did. It worked. 

Then, without any change on the java or Firefox parts, it stopped
working somewhere around one to two weeks ago. Java itself still works
(can run Java apps). I'm just wondering if that is something someone
else has experienced, which would point to some shared update or
(seemingly) unrelated install.
 


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