Firefox and java

[Friip]

Hi,

I'm trying to install firefox 2.0.0.1 and Java 1.5.0on Fedora Core 6. After having created the symlink and starting the browser, it crashes when I access a java page. Error message reads something like:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager

I'm helpless on Linux so any advice would be nice. I've tried different versions of java and of firefox, but still I hit the same problem. So the problem is probably the thing that tries to steer the box and not the software.

Cheers

 

[RhythmAce]

Fedora comes with firefox already installed. What method did you use to install the packages? If you used a download from the firefox website, it may not be configure correctly for fedora. A better way would be to use yum. For example you would go to the shell and type 'yum install firefox'. You will need to erase/remove any previos installations first. Generally you can do this with rpm or yum. If you compiled it yourself, you will have to do it manually.

 

[zeland]

I usually get the non rpm Java installer from java.com and install it under /opt. I also make sure that my PATH variable has /opt/java/bin at the front before any other paths to make that I don't run any other version by accident. At this point, you may want to try running some Java applications like Azureus or configure OpenOffice to use Java and see where it points to and if it works.

On firefox, type in aboutlugins in the address bar. Is java registed?

--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[jstreich]

As zeland says post the content of aboutlugins... remember the thing you want to use sun Java's web start as the plugin.

To see if you have Java installed and in your path, goto the commandline/terminal and type:
java -version

If the output says something about gij then your problem is that you've got the GNU java project installed and it's still not ready to handle AWT or SWING.

If you get "command not found", then run "updatedb" and "locate java" from the command line to see what comes up. If you see someting that looks like Java, edit your path in .bash_profile or .login to include the directory of the jvm (java) and webstart.

If you've gotten this far, it doesn't look like java's installed, so then, visit

http://sun.java.com/

and download the latest JVM and/or JDK. and edit your .bash_profile or .login to add the bin directory of location you install Java and webstart.

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