I had the same problem.
I used the descriptions found here :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/285
to make sure FC3 used the correct java (the how-to is for FC2 but it worked for FC3).
After I had finished the installation, I logged on and off, and java worked in firefox.
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