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Hi. I had similar problems but now everything is working OK. See 
comments inserted within your post. Gil


On Wed January 2 2008, Chee How Chua scratched these words onto a 
coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using openSUSE 10.3, kernel 2.6.22, Firefox 2.0.0.10, and
> java-1_5_0-sun-1.5.0_update13-0.5


My setup is identical except that I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11. All of 
this was originally installed about a week ago, then reinstalled 
yesterday. Therein lies the solution, I think.


> I have a problem getting Java applets to run in my Firefox.


And I had the same problem. Drove me crazy in SuSE 10.0 for more than a 
year, and also drove me crazy when I first installed 10.3 last week. I 
could not run java applets in Firefox. For example, I could not do the 
java speed tests on www.dslreports.com. I got a message telling me that 
I was missing certain java elements necessary to display all items on 
screen. Got a similar message on many other websites.

I went to the java website and downloaded the latest version of java JRE 
and tried to install. Very frustrating.  :o(


> There is a symbolic link to the Java plugin for the Firefox browser
> located in /usr/lib/browser-plugins/javaplugin.so
> This links to /etc/alternatives/javaplugin which is a symbolic link
> to
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update13-sr2/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/li
> bjavaplugin_oji.so This plugin didn't work. Although about:plugins
> show that the Java installation is working for Firefox, visiting
> Java's page or any page with a Java applet does not work correctly.


I also found that the plugins did not work. I created links all over the 
place. I also copied the libjavaplugin_oji.so into all sorts of places 
within firefox. Nothing worked. Many hours of frustration.



> So what I did was to create a link
> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to the same file as
> above. about:plugins again showed that the plugin is installed. Once
> again, I tried the applet in
> http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp but it is still not
> working.


This applet now works for me. However, I am told that I do not have the 
proper version of Java! I am told to download and install something 
else. Like hell! No way I am going to take a chance screwing up this 
working install.  :o)

> I've googled for help but the results came back with making a
> symbolic link which I've already done.
>
> Does anyone have any advice?


OK, this will probably really tick you off, but I suggest reinstalling 
10.3. When I did this yesterday now all of a sudden those pages that I 
could not see before display perfectly! All the java applets now work.

I cannot explain why this is happening other than to assume that when I 
did the first install of 10.3 I failed to install some file, some 
package that I did get yesterday.

One thing you should check: Be sure that you enable the Community 
Repository named "Main Repository (NON-OSS). It's in the Yast Control 
Center.

That repository has java updates. I suspect maybe I failed to get that 
one the first time, but this time I did, and when I did the first 
online update it may have pulled in a java update that now allows me to 
see all those nice applets that eluded me for over a year.

Hope this helps. Good luck.
Gil 
(writing from my wife's account)
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