Thanks That has worked for me too. I had no luck with firfox though even with a symlink - it just hangs on start up. Monzilla seems to be a problem too. I can't install it. The installer causes x11 and qt error messages. I think one needs to reboot to get konq to use new settings. Regards John On Thursday 12 January 2006 19:42, you wrote: > hi John, > dont know if this will help or not. > i use firefox & mozilla for web surfing. > i downloaded and installed 'jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin' package to enable > java. > my java directory is /usr/java. and created symlinks for firefox and > mozilla, [with this: > /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so] > and then opened konqueror settings [configure konqueror] and put a thick > for plugins to check for new ones at kde startup. > and now everything works fine with firefox, mozilla or konqueror. [no > problem with pages that contain java] > regards, > bye. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.