Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using
> squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded
> and installed. Currently, I
> see /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so, which is a link
> to /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so . my ~/.mozilla/plugins
> directory does not contain any Java-related libraries or links. When
> I check Iceweasel's add-ons GUI, I see Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20, and when
> I do about:plugins I see Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20. In my preferences,
> Java is enabled. However: when I navigate to the Java test webpage
> (http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp) and push the big red
> "verify java version" button, it errors out after about 2 minutes.
>
> Is there some other configuration work which needs to be done to make
> Iceweasel fully Java-functional?
I get the same results here, and accessing a site that requires the
plugin doesn't work. The page appears but the applet doesn't start for
reasons unknown.
A bug in the plug-in maybe??
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