In the hopes that this might help someone else...
If you use Jmol applets under Linux, the procedure for enabling Java applets
has changed with Firefox 3.6+.
1) You can no longer use the Preferences>Enable Java. You must now use the
Add-Ons manager: "Tools>Add Ons>Plugins" The default is "enabled".
2) The symbolic link that you must create by hand has changed. Under FF
3.6+, you must use the "next generation" Java plugin. You can carefully
parse the advice here <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java>, or do this:
first, exit out of FF. Then:
linux> cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
linux> rm libjavaplugin_oji.so
linux> ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_21/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
Note: your java installation directory may differ. Check that carefully ("
/usr/java/ "). Also note, this applies only to your login account. Anyone
else needs to do the same, or your sysadmin needs to do this in the FF
installation directory. If your sysadmin has the old JRE symbolically
linked globally and you link the new library, confusion may ensue. I have
not tested this! I would hope that user preferences would trump global
preferences, but no guarantees.
Here is the tragically poorly written summation from Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/manual-plugin-install-linux-136395.html
I wandered in circles for a long time trying to figure out why
"libjavaplugin_oji.so" was refusing to function in my FF! BTW, I am running
FF 3.6.8 under CentOS on a i386 machine.
-Tom
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