Firefox and JRE

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sat Aug 12 10:30:20 UTC 2006


On Saturday 12 August 2006 00:58, Walt wrote:
> On Friday 11 August 2006 15:42, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > Stanton also said to test the JRE plugin at
> > http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=97, and click the start button. But I
> > can't find one, and there's a window on the page saying "do you want to
> > install the plugin?" As far as I know, if thats referring to JRE, it's
> > installed.
> >
> > I must admit, that I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment, not sure whether
> > the JRE is required by this french site to use IRC, and have no way to
> > check whether the JRE is working. Doh.
> >
> > Nigel.
>
> Nigel:
>
> I have used the following for testing Java:
>      http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
>
> I also found that Java scripts were failing because my router was blocking
> them.  I think it was the filter "Popup Windows" that blocked the Java
> script functions.  Firefox does a good job of that so I shut off that
> filter.
>
>   walt
> ----- Walt Jamison  walter.jamison at comcast.net -----

Hi Walt. 

Problem solved. I'd created the link to the Java plugin in /usr/java, from 
Mozilla, but not from Firefox as well. Once I'd created the link from 
Firefox, the applet on the test page played ok.

Thanks for the help.

Nigel.




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