[Wolves] Browser integration of JRE?

[Mark R. Trotman]

Has anyone succesfully managed to get JRE working with Mozilla or 
Netscape? 

Having just upgraded from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora Core 2, I thought I'd try 
(yet again) to get JRE working with my browser of choice, Netscape 7.1. 
Firstly, I downloaded the latest J2RE.bin package from Sun and installed 
it as per their instructions (basically, download the package chmod +x 
then run the self extracting binary. Open the browser, find an 
appropriate website and .... nothing! Much searching and cursing later, 
I found that (according to some) it was possible to register it with the 
browser by creating a symbolic link from the appropriate .so file to the 
/netscape/plugin directory. This I did and when I tried to restart the 
browser it failed to initialize. Removing the symb. link cured it! 
Thoughts anyone?

As an aside, I have to say that the Fedora Core 2 install went perfectly 
and can thoroughly recommend it. It has come a loooong way from RH5 and 
all that mod probing, entering horizontal and vertical sync rates etc. 
that we used to have to do. At last, we are starting to see light at the 
end of the tunnel and linux will very soon be a very real threat to M$ 
for the desktop. :-D

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Cheers!

Mark