Anyone have Java working with Chromium

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 15:10:45 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:58 -0500, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> [2009-12-02 06:06]:
> > I've been using the Chromium browser under F12 on my netbook for several
> > days, and generally like it a lot (especially on the small screen). It's
> > fast and doesn't eat RAM like Firefox.
> > 
> > *But* Java sites don't work. This is a known bug with Linux versions of
> > Chrome/Chromium but I wondered if anyone out there had managed to get it
> > to work. I'm using IcedTea. Would it make a difference with Sun Java?
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> The upstream Sun plugin does not support Chromium on Linux yet. The next
> generation IcedTea Plugin does support chromium:
> 
> http://dbhole.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/icedtea-java-plugin-with-chromium-and-firefox-3-6a1/
> 
> Since it is still under development however, it is not in F12. You can
> manually compile icedtea and get it though. I will try to set up a wiki
> page by the end of the day with instructions on how to do it.

Thanks Deepak, that could be very helpful.

poc




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