Comment 2 for bug 239017

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:32:52PM -0000, Krishna E. Bera wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> os: Hardy 8.04 fresh install
>
> i was browsing to a page that had a java applet.
> firefox prompted to use the plugin-finder to install a java plugin.
> i checked about:plugins and there was no java plugin support.
> i clicked to start the plugin-finder and it presented a list of 4 or 5 options. i chose the first one, GCJ web plugin.
> it completed the installation, but did not prompt to restart firefox.
> i checked about:plugins and there was no java plugin support.
> i closed firefox and restarted it.
> i checked about:plugins and there was no java plugin support.
>
> complicating factors:
> i had at one time installed iceape browser but was not using it.
> i used synaptic to remove it and then re-installed gcjwebplugin
> but that did make the firefox plugin appear in about:plugins.
>
> my fix was to add a symlink:
> [code]
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/classpath/libgcjwebplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons-plugins/libgcjwebplugin.so

There should be a link in /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/ ... is
that the case?

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/classpath
 status incomplete

 - Alexander