java again really

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Jan 4 19:32:23 UTC 2008


Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008 22:43, Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 03 January 2008, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>>     
>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I've tried to help folks out on getting websites that require Java to
>>>> work. Pre F8 there is no chance without Sun's JRE. On F8 the icedtea
>>>> browser plugin partially works. I say this because if you look at the
>>>> link below, the jigsaw applets won't load. If you go to the bottom of
>>>> the page, click on Site Map, then under the "Help Pages"
>>>> Troubleshooting, then someway down the troubleshooting page, click on
>>>> "bubble simulation". The bubble simulation runs, but each bubble is
>>>> followed by thick black lines, so something is not working as it should.
>>>> With Sun's JRE installed, and making sure to remove the icedtea browser
>>>> plugin (as it still shows up in Firefox's about:plugins, and wants to
>>>> take precedence in trying to load applets from websites (much as Totem
>>>> tries to do with trying to play stuff that it can't play)) the bubble
>>>> simulation now works as expected, and the jigsaw applets load ok.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.jigzone.com
>>>>         
>>> Please file bugs like this so that the IcedTea people can see them.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>       
>> I may be in the same boat.  The contruction gfx at the top of the screen
>> works, but the center window remains empty regardless.  The selected puzzle
>> loads forever, except it says 'done' in the info line at the bottom.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>>     
>
>
> Hi Gene. Ideally remove the icedtea browser plugin, using Apt, as I do, or 
> Yum, or Smart.Your choice, but just get rid of the damned thing. As an 
> alternative, go to to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and remove/delete 
> libjavaplugin.so. I am presuming that you have Sun's JRE installed, and in 
> which case before removing the libjavaplugin.so, you should have Firefox's 
> about:plugins showing both the gcj stuff, and Sun's jre 
> (libjavaplugin_oji.so). Having got rid of libjavaplugin.so (the gcj thing 
> that don't work), restart Firefox, and run about:plugins. Hopefully you will 
> only have the libjavaplugin_oji.so showing now, apart from your other 
> plugins.
>
> Now try .  http://www.jigzone.com, and if all's gone well you may be able to 
> waste some time playing some interesting jigsaws.
>
> I'll be back.
>
> Nigel.
>
>   
    Hi and I went to www.jigzone.com and aside from the fact that I'm 
bad at puzzels, the color is fine. So what I did for the Firefox is 
working with the new version 1.6 Sun java system.  It does look like a 
good web page.

Karl
 

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