Firefox and Java

[albi at scii.nl]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:18:57 -0700
gary hypes <ghypes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Visiting some games websites (yahoo! games, Pogo) I got messages
> saying that I wasn't java-enabled. I downloaded the jre 1.5.0.2
> package and installed it, but ... it appears that it installed in it
> my user directory rather than the expected location (/usr/java). I've
> tried moving the files to the /usr/java directory, but it tells me I
> don't have permission, despite giving the file full read/write/execute
> permissions.  So...
> 
> (1) How do I get java to the right location(s)?
> (2) How do I get Firefox to recognize I have java enabled?

you can follow the http://www.ubuntuguide.org/
these 2 sections :
Q: How to install J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE)?
Q: How to install J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Plug-in for Mozilla
Firefox?