Firefox and Java

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/13/05, 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?

There are a few page on the Wiki about enabling Jave.  Here is one of them:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingJavaSupport