From: Thomas S. <tho...@gm...> - 2010-07-23 16:47:00
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How are you launching the browser? Are you typing "firefox" on a command line or clicking on a toolbar icon? I have run into situations where there is more than one version of the browser installed on my CentOS machine (aka, RHEL) and the two methods point to different installations. Firefox linux installers seem to like to not overwrite prior versions, but install "next to" the older one. Then you end up with multiple installations with each successive update & all the customizations (like the jre soft link) need to be re-applied to the newest version installation. *In my experience, I have found that anything added to ~/.mozilla is ignored.* I don't know why that is the case, but I need to put plugins/extensions/etc into the system installation directory, which is currently: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/plugins/ On the command line, try "which firefox" to see what that is launching**, and if you have a menu bar icon, right-clicking on it should give an option for "Properties". The better fix would be to de-install any version other than the one you actually want to use. I've been around this circle more than once! -Tom ** This is tricky, actually, because what will be returned will be a path to a script like /usr/bin/firefox. You then need to parse this file to see what is actually being called. "more /usr/bin/firefox" will return something like: MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m) case $MOZ_ARCH in x86_64 | s390x | sparc64) MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64" SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" ;; * ) MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64" ;; esac if [ ! -x $MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-3.6.3/firefox ]; then if [ ! -x $SECONDARY_LIB_DIR/firefox-3.6.3/firefox ]; then echo "Error: $MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-3.6.3/firefox not found" if [ -d $SECONDARY_LIB_DIR ]; then echo " $SECONDARY_LIB_DIR/firefox-3.6.3/firefox not found" fi exit 1 fi MOZ_LIB_DIR="$SECONDARY_LIB_DIR" fi MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-3.6.3" On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM, FyD <fy...@q4...> wrote: > Quoting Matthew Betts <mat...@bi...>: > > > Did you enable the plugin with the final step mentioned on the jmol > wiki?: > > > > open Firefox, select Tools > Addons, and enable the Java plug-in > > I cannot because it is not found. > > > You may also need to disable the IcedTea plugin (which uses openjdk) > > from the same menu. > > I disabled all the plugins. nothing changed. > > >> - should I install jre 1.6.x or 1.5.x from sun ? > > > > I installed jre 1.6.x > > ok, this is what I did. > > >> - should I install jre 32 or 64 bits ? > > > > According to http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp, you need the > > 32 bit version for applet support. > > ok, this is what I did. > > >> - should I do the symbolic link with /usr/lib/mozilla or > /usr/lib64/mozilla > > > > I'm not sure about that; I made the symbolic link within my home > > directory, at ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (I'm the main user of my machine and > > I don't have full root access to be able to put things elsewhere). > > The ~/.mozilla/ directory should exist for you already but you may > > have to mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins > > the link is in my login @ ~/.mozilla/plugins as well & the plugins is > not found... > > do you use firefox 32 bits or 64 bits ? > > thanks, regards, Francois > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > |