On 8/19/06, Lorin Pino <<a href="mailto:ljpino@grm.net">ljpino@grm.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I just got brave and installed Firefox <a href="http://1.5.0.6">1.5.0.6</a> on breezy. (Installing anything outside of synaptic is brave for me!) I decided to also go ahead and install the new java package jre-1_5_08- linux-i586.bin. I used the examples from the how-to's on the sites: firefox is in /opt, and I created /usr/java to extract the binary java file in. There are two plug-ins available in java: ns7, or ns7-gcc. I tried the ns7 and it works, but I while a looped weather map is loading my cpu is at 100% until the image is totally loaded. So I switched to the ns7-gcc, but it caused firefox to crash, so I am assuming that I shouldn't use that one. For the moment, at least, I have gone back to the old plug-in (1.4), and it is working normally. Is this something that others have run into? If so, is there a fix? ~Lorin</blockquote><div> Hi Lorin, I do not have a fix to the problem you describe. I haven't had any problems with java, though, since I used the script from this web site: <a href="http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/">http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ </a> A number of applications I wanted to use via the web didn't work with the Blackdown Java version I tried with Synaptic. I don't know if it is "ubuntu-users approved", but I only have personal PC's at home and it didn't take much bravery to use it. No problemos so far. The only thing I had to do was uncheck the "start alsa server automatically" (or some such thing) to get sound with flash animations. HTH, </div></div>-- <a href="http://kimbriggs.com">http://kimbriggs.com</a>