Re: Installing a JRE plug-in
andy wrote:
> In any event, I got this error message for a site in which I must
> spend a fair amount of time in order to do an on-line course, so
> that is what prompted my sudden interest in this.
Use in an online course falls right into the pattern. Not something
that *everyone* would need but a smaller group of people will need it
and it is a larger application than is typically run by the masses.
Makes sense. (Of course in that case you would need Java installed
and I am not lobbying against it here. Just making observations.)
> It is interesting that you say that Iceweasel loads the modules
> dynamically once installed. Actually my Iceweasel didn't which is why my
> penultimate e-mail on this thread reported that I had lost the
> functionality and then later I wrote to disregard the previous e-mail. I
> had been hoping that Iceweasel would load it dynamically, but it didn't.
> It was only after I restarted Iceweasel that the modules were loaded. Of
> course, this could come down to some or other preference setting in
> Iceweasel, but that is certainly not something that I could address
> authoritatively.
I have a stock iceweasil installation. For modules such as Java I can
verify that they are not installed by looking in about:plugins. Then
I can install the .deb file. Then reload about:plugins in the running
browser and those additional plugins will be display there.
I have tried this just now to verify and "it worked for me". I exited
iceweasil, I removed the plugins with 'dpkg --purge', I started
iceweasil, checked about:plugins and verified that they were not
present, installed the java package, checked about:plugins and it was
listed as present. (shrug)
Bob
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