FireFox Java Plugin

Getting the Java (JRE) plugin working in FireFox under Linux.

cd
/opt/firefox-1.5/plugins
rm libjavaplugin_oji.so
ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

MozDev Reference

Tagged with: General Java Linux Open Source

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