Mozilla + Java content (linux)

[Soulkeeper]

any of you have problems making this combination work ??
i've tryed mozilla 1.0 and 1.1beta
also tryed java 1.3.1 and 1.4.0
using "aboutlugins" in the address bar shows the plugins as being enabled
shockwave/flash plugins work fine
none of these combinations seem to work tho
here is a website with java in it that crashes mozilla everytime if you wanna try Example_SIte
netscape works but i don't like using netscape cause it freezes up too much (yeah i know mostly the same code)
is Mozilla supposed to work with java or is it just one of those soon to be added/devel features ??

any ideas ?

--Soul_keeper

 

[Electrode]

works fine for me.

what you need to do is install the JRE somewhere, and then symlink (NOT copy) the plugin .so into your plugins directory. the site you got the JRE from will tell you what file you need to symlink.

 

[Soulkeeper]

alright i got it
works now
if you click the "OK" on the popups that tell you java support isn't installed then it will take you to a site and download and install it for you
i noticed that when it does the auto-install (which i didn't want to do at first) it makes a directory, containing all the java files in the jre package, in the plugins subdir of mozilla.
then it links to the appropriate java plugin
weird that it wouldn't just let me copy it into the dir
i think it must issue commands that need those files to be located there or maybe only the link works
kinda odd
ohh well it works now

 

[manly]

No, the automated Java2 plugin mechanism (XPI) doesn't do anything special. It just makes it easy for the common user to get Java2 plugin setup and configured.

For Linux hackers (i.e. relatively comfortable with sysadmin), the manual installation approach is actually preferred. The reason is that some Java2 1.3 VMs had some peculiar setup issues on some Linux systems. What a lot of people saw was when they installed the Java2 plugin from the automated mechanism you described, any web site w/ Java applets would totally lock the browser. What was happening was the VM would lock up completely.

But as of right now, the Java2 1.4.0_01 plugin seems to work flawlessly without any tweaking. However, you have to install it manually (by creating the symlink Electrode mentioned). After that, make sure to enable a checkbox for Java plugin support in Preferences/Advanced.

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: Electrode
works fine for me.

what you need to do is install the JRE somewhere, and then symlink (NOT copy) the plugin .so into your plugins directory. the site you got the JRE from will tell you what file you need to symlink.

I found this out myself when I attemped to copy the plugin into the dir instead of using a sysmlink. All it would do is crash mozilla when I tried to view any kind of java content. So, with this in mind I cannot stress enough how important it is to read the available documentation.