[wplug] Firebird and Java

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I'm running Mozilla Firebird (0.7) on Redhat 9.  I can't get the Java
plugin to install.  The behavior is startlingly windows-like, in that it
gives a nonsensical error message (in this case, the words "read only")
and fails otherwise terminally.  Thoroughly frustrating.  I don't even
understand enough about plugins to know what question to ask except -- how
to make this work?

Here's what I do.  I go to:
http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/cb.html

It says, in a popup window, "This page contains information of a type 
(application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate 
Plug-in.  Click OK to download the Plugin."

So I click OK and a new browser window opens up to download the plugin.  I 
tried once downloading it, and again saving it to my system and running it 
locally.  When I try to do the 'automatic' installation, I wait for it to 
download and after it completes, it reports "read only" in the popup 
window, and "Error encountered --- 215" on the webpage, where it warns me 
that the file may take a very long time to download over a modem.

It gives me an ftp address, and if I go there to save the file locally, 
and then open it from within the web browser, I get the same error.

Any idea?

TIA,
-Brandon