271539 - manual installed java runtime will not install as plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Rudolf Friess]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

after manually downloading Sun Java J2SE50 Runtime i install and test jre in os.
java -version give correct runtime output.
i link runtime plugin lib to plugin dir of firefox.
i restart firefox but the plugin will not be loaded.
in windows version everthing works automatically as expected.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. download J2SE50 from sun website as rpm
2. install rpm, test ok
3. ln -s /usr/lib/java/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin-oji.so 
   ..../firefox-installer/plugins
4. restart firefox
Actual Results:  
when navigating to above url plugin install sevice starts again.
telling me to install java plugin (manually).

Expected Results:  
display the website like the windows version does.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

You want the ns7 directory, not the ns7-gcc29 one.

Comment 2

[Rudolf Friess]

(In reply to comment #1) 
> You want the ns7 directory, not the ns7-gcc29 one. 
 
doesn?t work either.  i tested with both libs.  
 

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

ln the plugin to /home/youruser/.mozilla/plugins/, which will be shared by all
Mozilla products.