64 bit applets

Ken T. ktectropy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 05:51:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:21:47 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> On 07/15/2009 07:45 PM, Ken T. wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Check the symlink in your plugins folder.

Checked.  It is pointed to the right place.  It isn't getting loaded 
though. 



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Ken T. <ktectropy at gmail.com>





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