71677 - 0.8 Release notes for Java need fix b/4 8.1...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Ric Johnson]

The Installation section for Jave in the 0.8 Release Notes does not compute. I
do not know who "my" is but it certainly is not me.  The Linux symlink request
is not well defined and "install" (method) is ambiguous.

Please define the "install" method and pick one that works; the 'auto-install'
has yet to function since N6. BTW, the Netscape page (home.netscape.com...) for
the autoinstall of the Java Plug-in is out of date.  It still thinks the jre.xpi
dld & install is 19 minutes w/ 56k modem.

I suppose someone wrote the section from someone else's notes and did not remove
the 'my' in the notes... unless there is suppose to be a my/mozilla/plugins dir.

The symlink is supposed to be named what?  Is that directory supposed to be
created during the install of jre.xpi? I hope so, cause I don't have it. Oh yea,
that's a soft symlink, right? ln -s <target> <therequiredLINKname> would be nice
to have in there, if that is what is needed.

Anyway, it's confusing.  I hope that someone will clear it up before 8.1.  The
correct person could do it in two minutes... ok, maybe 3.:)


Keep up the good work. Moz is looking better all the time...

Have a Great Day!

Ric

Comment 1

[Ric Johnson]

Ooops..
0.8 Release Notes are here:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.8/

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing endico so she can take a look at this

Comment 3

[rudman]

Reassigning to endico. 

Comment 4

[Dawn Endico]

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 08:27:42 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Terry Weissman)
  To: Dawn Endico <[e-mail]>

It turns out there were two problems I had in installing Java:

(1) (The big one) I didn't see the note in the release notes that you 
had to hit the "Stop" key to get the installation process to finish.  
Ahem.  (Was that the change you made to the documentation?)

(2) It silently fails unless you are running mozilla as root.

Having fixed that, I now have a Java installation which seems to work 
as well as Netscape 4's.  Which is not saying much, but at least Java 
is no longer a reason to not use Mozilla.

I have (gulp) made the switch, and am now using Mozilla as my primary 
browser.

Comment 5

[Dawn Endico]

fixing this in the 0.8.1 release notes. in the process of checking them in

http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.8.1/

Comment 6

[Ric Johnson]

Using Build 2001032321 from sea.tarbagz for Linux.
It is still necessary to click the 'Stop' button or mozilla continues to appear
to be downloading the plug-in. It is also necessary to 'Quit' and restart moz
for the jre.xpi plugin to take affect.

Of course , it might just be this build. Also, this is from installing jre.xpi
from local hard drive - have not tried the N'scape download in a while...
shouldn't be any different.

Ric
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