Java

[marc]

David McGlone said...
> On Wednesday 15 April 2009 8:11:04 pm Ian L. Target wrote:
> > David McGlone wrote:
> > > <snipped like a bad circumcison>
> > >
> > > Are you sure it works in konqueror? I bet if you follow the link I sent,
> > > it doesn't work, and konqueror will sit there with "loading applet" like
> > > forever then time out with "applet failed".
> > >
> > > So get mean all you want, I know what I'm talking about :-)
> >
> > Yes, the Java works in Konqueror.  Yes, I checked the URL you gave me,
> > along with a couple of others.  I guess if I didn't have so much
> > homework, I'd uninstall the Sun Java and install the GPL or whatever
> > version you mentioned.  It isn't really that big of a deal, more of a
> > curiosity than anything.  I just thought it strange that it would work
> > in one and not the other.
> >
> > I am going to leave it as is for now.  When (if) I switch Javas, I'll
> > post my results.
> >
> > Thanks for the input.
> 
> It only takes a couple seconds to fix it up. 
> You probably only need to install the sun-java6-plugin or the sun-java5-
> plugin.

This worked for me. I hadn't checked in Jaunty's FF3. The link Ian gave 
(and thanks for that, very useful):

  http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

showed that Java doesn't work in Jaunty's FF3 without installing sun-
java?-plugin.

Shouldn't this be flagged somewhere? Happy to raise it, but no idea 
where.

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Cheers,
Marc