[R] R-2.1.0 search engine works with mozilla browser but not firefox

[Waichler, Scott R]

> > I'm running R-2.1.0 on a Linux box and found that the HTML search 
> > engine help would not work with Firefox 1.0.3 but would work with 
> > Mozilla 1.7.7.  I have Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_02 
> installed.  
> > With Firefox, when I launch help.start() and click to the search 
> > engine, it brings up the first page with "Applet 
> SearchEngine started" 
> > in the status bar, but clicking on one of the contents entries or 
> > trying to search for a term does nothing.

> It works with Firefox 1.0.3 for me on Fedora Core 3.
> 
> Please consult the appropriate manual as linked from the 
> search page: this is a configuration issue local to you.  One 
> irritating part of FC3's updates is that they do not (at 
> least for me) copy the plugins across, so I had manually to 
> fix up my Firefox 1.0.3 update yesterday.  Sounds like your 
> plugin is not set up correctly.

I followed the advice posted at
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux to install the JRE
plugin correctly:

"If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to
install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following:

    * Open a terminal
    * Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory
    * Issue the following command: ln -s
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Important! If you install your JRE in a different way (self extracting
package, debian package, etc), libjavaplugin_oji.so will quite likely be
in a different location. Do not just blindly use the command listed
above!" 

All of this checked out for me, and Firefox still won't work with R's
search engine.  Yes, I understand this isn't an R issue per se, but I
don't know where to turn. . .

Scott Waichler