[ale] This bites (was Re: [ale] More on Mozilla/Java)

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Sun Mar 24 21:33:00 EST 2002


Do any of the distro makers realize that this kind of crap just isn't 
going to fly as far as "desktop acceptance" goes?  This stuff needs to 
"arrive working."  



- Jeff

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

>It created a /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/java2 directory and a symlink in
>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to a .so file in the java2 directory.  By all
>indications the plugin is getting loaded, it's just not working
>properly.
>
>Krum
>
>On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 20:11, Robert Heaven wrote:
>
>>If you're talking about the java2 plugin, when I downloaded the plugin 
>>from the Netscape web site it installed itself in 
>>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/java2/ then in the 
>>/usr/local/mozilla099/mozilla/plugins directory I made a symlink to this 
>>directory and called it java2. In fact most of the plugins install 
>>themselves in the /usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory anyway. So, every 
>>time I download a new mozilla release I install it in a new 
>>/usr/local/mozillaxxx directory and copy the symlinks from the previous 
>>mozilla. (i.e., cp -l)
>>
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