Hello.

I installed

mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.5-installer.tar.gz

from the mozilla.org

and

j2sdk-1.4.2-01-linux-i586.bin
(which is identical to the file that the gentoo blackdown ebuild uses)

from blackdown

under /usr/local

so I could share them betweem my slackware partition and my gentoo
partition.

When I am running gentoo, mozilla vanishes the instant I click on a html
page that
invokes a java applet.

When I am runnning slackware, I do not have this problem.

aboutlugins shows that mozilla knows about java in both cases.

and I can run java applets from a console command line in both cases.

Can anyone here tell me what might possibly be causing this problem?

I am absolutely stumped.

Thanks!