This installation process is part of that provided by http://www-archive.mozilla.org

Mozilla searches for plug-ins in the following locations of Red Hat Linux 8:

• The path pointed to by environment variable
  MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
   
  
• Your Mozilla plugins directory, e.g.
  /usr/local/mozilla/plugins
   
  
• ~/.mozilla/plugins

If you install a plug-in without root permissions, use ~/.mozilla/plugins instead of the plugins sub-directory of the Mozilla install directory. You may have to create this directory first.

For a list of plug-ins supported by Mozilla and how to install them, visit http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html

To run Java applets, you must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.1 or later (1.4.2 recommended). To enable Java for Mozilla, put a symlink in your Mozilla plugins directory, e.g.:

Copying the file (instead of making a symlink) will cause Java to crash.

If you need to download the JRE, you can find it at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html