Firefox locking up

[Jim Rosser]

Im just curious is there a reason you did not use the repositories to
install jre?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Leonard Bussey <lbus42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried installing the java runtime environment using the instructions
> on Sun's website.
>
> I downloaded the jre-6u7-linux-i586.bin file
> extracted it into /home/leonard/jre.1.6.0_07
> chmod a_x jre-6u7-linux-i586.bin to make it executable
> ./jre-6u7-linux-i586.bin to install
> cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins
> ln -s /home/leonard/jre.1.6.0_07/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> Now whenever I start Firefox it locks up after a few minutes.  Sometimes
> it justs closes by itself and other times it locks the system up.  I
> have to log onto another vitual terminal to recover.
>
> I am running Hardy 8.04 with Firefox 3.0.  Thank you for any assistance.
>
>
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Jim Rosser
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