java and firefox

[Ric Moore]

On 02/05/2012 06:46 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi, Tib,
>
> On 05/02/2012 11:24, Thibaut wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> i'm running kubuntu and there is no java applet working on my firefox
>> (jre is installed though). Any idea what I have to install to make it
>> work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> t.
>>
>
> When you type the URL "about:plugins" in your browser, do you get a
> "Java" section?
>
> Ideally you should (if you have the official Sun/Oracle) JRE installed,
> get a section that starts with "Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_26"
>
> Can you copy/paste in your response to me here?
>
> Did you run "sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun" after
> installing the JRE?
>
> Type "sudo update-java-alternatives -l" to get a list of java
> environments installed. Not all of them have a plugin available...
>
> Gilles
>

You can also install galternatives and directly look at the links set 
for "mozilla-javaplugin.so" I use Oracle Java7 so I can't tell you would 
it should be set to using the OpenJDK. Someone else could. Running 32bit 
on this machine my link is:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386/libpjp2.so

Ric