Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

["Michael Checca" <mchecca@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:06:46 -0400, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Michael Checca wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, <alex.padoly@laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > > I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich
> > >package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with
> > >Firefox.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > > Regards.
> > >
> > > Alex PADOLY
> >
> > sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree icedtea6-plugin
> >
> > The flashplugin-nonfree downloads directly from Adobe.
> > The icedtea6-plugin is the browser plugin of Open
>
> Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a
> reason to install flashplugin-nonfree and icedtea6-plugin? What am I
> missing?

Gnash never worked well for me. Very choppy and memory intensive.
As for icedtea6-plugin, that is the OpenJDK Java plugin for browsers.
You could also install sun-java6-plugin instead (which is Sun/Oracle's  
version)

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