On 10/7/07, Adam Huffman <<a href="mailto:bloch@verdurin.com">bloch@verdurin.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Will Woods wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 08:09 -0700, David wrote: > > I'm using firefox in f8t3 and trying to view web pages with java. > > I was hoping the plugin would be installed by default or install easily, > > but I'm having problems. Is the new icedtea stuff supposed to enable > > java support in firefox, or do I still need to install something from Sun? > > If I have to install Sun stuff, is there a documented procedure for f8? > > You'll need the icedtea browser plugin - the package is called > java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin. It should be installed by default. Check > "about:plugins" in Firefox to confirm. > > Note that it's not 100% compatible with the Sun plugin yet, but it's > close. One big missing thing appears to be sound - see here for details: > <a href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions"> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions</a> > > Here's an example java game that works: > <a href="http://www.lalena.com/games/Pyramid.aspx">http://www.lalena.com/games/Pyramid.aspx </a> > Is this expected to work on rawhide? I've installed the icedtea browser plugin but it doesn't appear in Firefox's list and that example game doesn't work.</blockquote><div> It did work for me after installing java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin . That game worked too and Sun's java installation verification was happy: www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp Congratulations! </div></div> You have the recommended Java installed (1.7.0). This is great! Thanks, David