[wplug] Firebird and Java

[sublime78ska at comcast.net]

When you're asked which profile to use, it means Firebird is already running.  End  it and then restart.

To get the java plugin, you need to install the jre.  There is a good site, I believe it's www.jpackage.org, that has a lot of java stuff already packaged up for many distros.  To check the plugins that Firebird knows about, type 'about:plugins' in the location.  

good luck!

Phil

ps - sorry for top posting.  Comcast's web mail client makes me do it ;)  They had a new and improved version that was online for like one day - guess it was buggy!
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, deep wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I think you have to be root to install that.  Open a shell prompt and
> > start Firebird after su'ing as root.  Then follow the same process you
> > have been doing.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> It doesn't seem to make a difference.  Plus, it keeps asking me what 
> profile to use, and when I say 'default', it says it can't use that one 
> because it's already in use.
> 
> WTF?  I switched to Linux to get away from this crap.
> 
> So i made a new profile, and it still does the same thing.  I go to the 
> website, it says I need a plugin, I [say okay | install the plugin that I 
> downloaded earlier] and this time it fails silently, reporting only "read 
> only" in the installation popup window.
> 
> -brandon
> 
> 
> > 
> >  --- On Fri 04/02, Brandon Kuczenski < brandon at 301south.net > wrote:
> > From: Brandon Kuczenski [mailto: brandon at 301south.net]
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:59:22 -0500 (EST)
> > Subject: [wplug] Firebird and Java
> > 

> > I'm running Mozilla Firebird (0.7) on Redhat 9.  I can't get the 
> Java<br>plugin to install.  The behavior is startlingly windows-like, in that 
> it<br>gives a nonsensical error message (in this case, the words "read 
> only")<br>and fails otherwise terminally.  Thoroughly frustrating.  I don't 
> even<br>understand enough about plugins to know what question to ask except -- 
> how<br>to make this work?<br><br>Here's what I do.  I go 
> to:<br>http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/cb.html<br><br>It says, in a popup 
> window, "This page contains information of a type <br>(application/x-java-vm) 
> that can only be viewed with the appropriate <br>Plug-in.  Click OK to download 
> the Plugin."<br><br>So I click OK and a new browser window opens up to download 
> the plugin.  I <br>tried once downloading it, and again saving it to my system 
> and running it <br>locally.  When I try to do the 'automatic' installation, I 
> wait for it to <br>download and after it completes, it reports "read only" in 
> the pop!
>  up!
> >   <br>window, and "Error encountered --- 215" on the webpage, where it warns 
> me <br>that the file may take a very long time to download over a 
> modem.<br><br>It gives me an ftp address, and if I go there to save the file 
> locally, <br>and then open it from within the web browser, I get the same 
> error.<br><br>Any 
> idea?<br><br>TIA,<br>-Brandon<br><br><br>_______________________________________
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