[NTLUG:Discuss] Java - Firefox Plugin

[terry]

I seem to have the java plugin installed on my Slackware system - I had
forgotten until just now - I installed JRE some time ago and just forgot
about it  but am testing it with jigzone.com/puzzles/daily-jigsaw   ... At
any rate, I seem to have /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so  and
it is linked from /usr/lib/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so and
Firefox uses it just fine from there.  This appears to be a static
installation of the JRE plugin and [more than likely] will not get lost
through Firefox upgrades, (providing that upgrades are done through
Slackware's mozilla-firefox-x.x.xx-i686-1.tgz upgrade packages).  I've gone
through two versions of Firefox via authorized Slackware updates since
implementing this system and it must have worked when I first installed it -
and it works now, so...

I wonder if Fedora's implementation of Firefox has and / or uses the
/usr/lib/mozilla/pluings/ directory?
If so, I wonder if
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
would  solve the lost plugin problem once and for all?

Since I do not have a clear memory of how the libjavaplugin_oji.so got to
where it is now, I'm thinking I was just blindly following some Slackware
specific instructions. But, just to make sure, I removed the symlink and
tried it to confirm that Firefox's java plugin would be broken without
libjavaplugin_oji.so linked into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and I was
correct.
I re-did the symlink with
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
and it worked just fine again.