Re: firefox java plugins

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On 10/7/07, Adam Huffman <bloch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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