64 bit applets

[Ken T.]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:13:49 +1200, Tim Frost wrote:

> The fact that the distribution is Hardy, rather than Intrepid or Jaunty,
> IS significant. The 64-bit sun java plugin wasn't released for hardy,
> because of the timing of the Sun decisions about java and the plugin.
> icedtea6-plugin (which is the Java plugin from the open-jdk package set)
> might work, but there have been a number of issues/bugs with that (eg
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/344705).


This seems to have been corrected in an update I received today.  Now I 
have access to the sun-java6-plugin, but even after installing it an it 
setting up the links correctly, mozilla still doesn't recognize the 
plugin.  Not sure what to try next. 


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Ken T. <ktectropy at gmail.com>