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I just tried to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. Clicking the "download
plugin" button in the dialogue box that appeared to tell me I didn't have
the plugin, I was taken to <http://wp.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html>;. Rather
than providing simple links to download the installers, this page uses form
buttons with some shitty JavaScript. That didn't work when I tried it. So I
viewed the page's source, which told me I needed to get
<ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/unix/linux22/plugins/jre131_02.xpi>;.
After a long time a dialogue box finally appeared and asked me if I wanted
to install, yadda yadda yadda. I said I did. It sat around for a while and
eventually told me permission was denied to install. So I tried again as
root, and it said "Installation successful".
Wrong!
Running Mozilla showed no sign of the plugin at all. Running it from the
command line said the Java plugin couldn't be initialized because it was
missing a shared object file. Thanks to packages.debian.org, I managed to
locate and install an obsolete package called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, which
is something to do with an old compiler. As if I needed, or wanted, to know
that.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, running Mozilla again I notice that - all my
bookmarks have been deleted! Fucking HEAP of CRAP.
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# Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin
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