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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