Firefox and Java (new)

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Laurence Sanford wrote:

> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>
>> Beecher Rintoul wrote:
>>
>>> Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and 
>>> installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get:
>>>
>>> Applet testvm notinited
>>> Loading Java Applet Failed
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> Your about:plugins looks the same as mine.  Where is this java test 
>> site?
>>
>> --Alex
>>
> This is a little off the topic, specifically, but I have been 
> struggling with java, and other (flash) plugins and firefox myself. I 
> have very much the same information as has been discussed in this 
> thread in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins:
>
> total 0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   0 Jul 23 08:59 .firefox.keep
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  49 Sep 14 06:35 flashplayer.xpt@ -> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  51 Sep 14 06:37 libflashplayer.so@ -> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  78 Sep 14 07:07 libjavaplugin_oji.so@ -> 
> /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
>
>
> However, when I use the about:plugins page, it comes up essentially 
> blank, giving me only the information links about instaling plugins, 
> etc. I have been working under the assumption that I've done something 
> incredibly stupid, and attempting to find my error on my own, and have 
> the sinking feeling that it's probly staring me right in the face, and 
> I'm just too blind to see it. Do either of you (or anyone else for 
> that matter) have any advice or hints here, or does this seem as 
> strange to you as it does to me?

I can only repeat what I said before.  1) Check that the symbolic link 
resolves correctly (ls -lL will show a file, not a link) 2) I'm not 
convinced that a linux-java is what you want.  The other poster 
installed native java 1.4 and got it to show up as a plugin.  That 
"works" for me.  I can use at least one site that has a java applet and 
it doesn't crash all that often.  Whether the linux-java can be made to 
work, I do not know.

AFAIK, the notinited error being described above means a) Java *is* 
running b) the applet is doing something broken which popping up the 
Java console might help with.

--Alex