Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

[Bayard Coolidge]

I've had similar problems, but with SuSE 10.2 on an AMD X2 -based
laptop with Firefox "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre" .

There appears to be no workable solution, as yet, for the lack
of a 64-bit Java plugin. While I no longer get the "JVM Missing" complaint,
some sites that I visit simply don't work, despite attempts to use
nspluginwrapper. My simplest/primary example would be the NOAA
radar imagery; visit your local NOAA website, click on the radar image,
e.g., http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/radar.php
then click on whichever radar screen you'd like to see, say "Miami".
For me, I get to:http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=amx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Then click on 'loop' on either 'Composite' or 'Base' Reflectivity from the
list in the blue column on the left. And watch it fail miserably.

My "workaround" is to use Konqueror, which uses the standard 32-bit
plugins. nspluginwrapper can't digest Sun's 64-bit plugin, evidently.

I believe that I have had my symbolic links set up correctly for the
_oji.so files, etc. I tried both SuSE's rpm's and Sun's package of the
Java 1.5.0 Update 10 bits, and neither seem to work. AFAICT, both the openSuSE and Sun teams are aware of the problem (as, I suspect the
pertinent Firefox teams), but progress appears to be glacial.

Any insight/help/confirmation would be appreciated, however.

Thanks,

Bayard



Tech Writer <TechWtr at handspun.com> wrote:       Don't think I sent this from the right  account...  thought I'd add an update on my "problem" with  Firefox...
  
  I talked to someone else who had the same problem,  and was told that I have to make my own softlink for Firefox to recognize the  Java plug-in... Here's what I had to do:
  
 Find the java plugin:
   /usr/java/jrel.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  
 Find the plugin directory for firefox:
   /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/plugins
  
 Create a softlink as follows:
  ln -s  /usr/java/jrel.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.0/plugins
  
 I am no longer getting the error that the JVM  plug-in is missing.
  
 Peg

    ----- Original Message ----- 
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   Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:02    PM
   Subject: Can't figure out Firefox Plugin    Requirement
   

   I'm using Firefox in Red Hat EL5, and trying to    run a web application that requires a Java Virtual Machine. When I start my    application, I get an informational message that "additional plugins ar    required".  When I click the "Install Missing Plugins" button, it directs    me to the java web site, where I downloaded the file:     jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.rpm.  I installed this, went back into Firefox,    and back to the java website, where I did a "verify installation".  All    appears good (the verify worked).  Yet... I'm STILL getting the message    that I'm missing the JVM plugin.
    
   Any ideas?
      

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