Well, I just ran into this error. You can't use java on 64 bit firefox.<br>Good news is that there is a way to sort of fix this and the bug is known and being worked on. They hope it might be fixed by the next Ubuntu release.
<br>sudo apt-get install icedtea-java7-plugin<br>The other way round is to use 32 bit firefox on a 64 bit machine.<br>Douglas