firefox java plugins

[David L]

On 10/7/07, Adam Huffman <bloch at verdurin.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Will Woods wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 08:09 -0700, David wrote:
> > > I'm using firefox in f8t3 and trying to view web pages with java.
> > > I was hoping the plugin would be installed by default or install
> easily,
> > > but I'm having problems. Is the new icedtea stuff supposed to enable
> > > java support in firefox, or do I still need to install something from
> Sun?
> > > If I have to install Sun stuff, is there a documented procedure for
> f8?
> >
> > You'll need the icedtea browser plugin - the package is called
> > java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin. It should be installed by default. Check
> > "about:plugins" in Firefox to confirm.
> >
> > Note that it's not 100% compatible with the Sun plugin yet, but it's
> > close. One big missing thing appears to be sound - see here for details:
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> >
> > Here's an example java game that works:
> > http://www.lalena.com/games/Pyramid.aspx
> >
>
> Is this expected to work on rawhide?  I've installed the icedtea browser
> plugin but it doesn't appear in Firefox's list and that example game
> doesn't work.



It did work for me after installing java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin .
That game worked too and Sun's java installation
verification was happy:

www.*java*.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Congratulations!
You have the recommended Java installed (1.7.0).

This is great!

Thanks,

   David
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