Re: HELP: Mapquest.com does not work with Mozilla or Firefox

pwilkins wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I've beed trying to use mapquest's (www.mapquest.com) features using
> Mozilla and Firefox but to no avail. I just cannot get it to work. I have
> tried on WinXP and Linux, (both Mozilla and Firefox on each). On WinXp
> mapquest works just fine with Interent Explorer. Howevfer I DO NO want to
> use I.E., I really like Firefox.
>
> I've read the FAQ at mapquest, which says the following:
>
> "How can I check/change Firefox image settings? To check your settings, do
> the following:
>    1. Click on the "Tools" menu at the top of the browser window 2. Click
>    "Options..."
>    3. Click the "Web Features" icon on the left side of the "Options"
>    window 4. Verify that the box labeled "Load Images" is checked 5.
>    Verify that the box labeled "for the originating website only" is NOT
>    checked 6. Click "OK" in the bottom right corner of the "Options"
>    window"
>
> I made sure the option were as above. Also I have updated javaVM on both
> Linux and WinXP since I a came across I note somewhere that the WinXP java
> vm will only work with internet explorer.
>
> Has anyone been able to use mapquest successfully using either FIREFOX or
> MOZILLA on either WinXp or Linux.
>
> Any help with this would be much appreciated because it has become very
> frustrating.
>
> Thanks,
> pw
>   
Updated Java from where? Sun? Your distribution? Microsoft (shudder)? Do 
you have a symbolic link to the correct plugin in Linux?

Do you have something that looks like this in ~firefox/plugins (ls -l):

    libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
    /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so*

If you don't (ls -l shows only libjavaplugin_oji.so), you may have 
*copied* libjavaplugin_oji.so to the plugins directory, remove it and 
make a symbolic link:

    ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

(and don't forget to do this as root and start the browser once as root 
after you make the link).

Entering about:plugins in the address window of Firefox should show you 
a long list of functions for Java, you should see the same in the drop 
down in Mozilla.

On the Windows side of the world, Microsoft's (lame excuse for) Java is 
easily replaced with "real" Java from Sun: go to http://java.sun.com, 
download J2SE5.0, install it and start enjoying life.