If all went well you should see
Code:
libjavaplugin_oji.so
in the output of
Code:
ls -al ~/.mozilla/plugins
It has been a while but I recall I had better luck using the shared Mozilla plugins directory.
To accomplish the alternative symlink as root
Code:
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Code:
ln -s /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/mozilla-plugins/
The run
to update the symlinks without rebooting.