java-plugin not working in F8

[Mike A. Harris]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:44 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed java plugin via 'yum install java-plugin' and firefox
>> still complains that plugin is not installed...
>> I'm running 32bit fedora (I saw previous mails regarding F7 on 64bit).
> 
> Just install the java-icedtea-plugin (just look for icedtea) from Fedora
> and it will work just fine.
> 
> Otherwise, maybe you need to create a link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> as well?

I'm running F8/x86_64 and haven't manually installed any Java stuff yet, 
just whatever might have been installed by anaconda by default.  Up 
until now I hadn't visited any web pages with Java on them.

A lot of people have been having problems with Java it seems, and so I 
decided to try to get it to work myself.  I google searched for a "Java 
test", went to the Sun page, and it just worked automatically already, 
presumeably with iced-tea, which I assume was installed for me already 
by anaconda.  I went to a variety of other Java websites to test it out 
and have had no problems at all so far.  All Java sites work in firefox 
for me automatically.

As mentioned above, I haven't had to install anything, configure 
anything, or do anything manual for this to work, it just works out of 
the box on x86_64, at least for me.

I can only assume that the people having the problems either:

1) Are coming from an upgrade of a previous OS release
or
2) Have Sun, IBM, or some other Java installed already, or are trying to 
install some other Java
3) Have upgraded and didn't get iced-tea by default perhaps.

Anyhow, worst case scenario -> do a fresh OS install and Java seems to 
work in firefox right out of the box.  ;o)



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