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On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Chee How Chua wrote:
> 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
>
> I have a problem getting Java applets to run in my Firefox.
>
> 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/libjavap
> lugin_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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?


I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by removing the ~/.java directory. 
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