[ubuntu-za] problems with java script

[Raoul Snyman]

On Sunday 29 May 2011 10:45:16 SHAWN REITSTEIN wrote:
> Sorry, I'm using Firefox 3.6.15 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
> en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303.
> Somewhere along the line it was suggested I reinstall Java? I did a
> synaptic blits and downloaded things Java. Then when that seemed to
> have no effect, I downloaded Java script from somewhere? as
> recommended by Linux? -or, maybe   Ubuntu? or Ubuntu forum?  I
> couldn't install it? Then one day I thought it had loaded - and for a
> while it seemed fine then the yellow bar reappeared, bottom of window,
> to tell me, on almost every page, that I should allow Java script -
> the option column on the right of the yellow bar offers things like
> allow: "the site being blocked or limited" or " temporarily allow the
> whole page".  And that is where I am - most pages ask that Java be
> activated/allowed/installed/upgraded... I've tried to check all the
> possible settings choices - I think I'm missing something?

As I said earlier in reply to another person, JavaScript *is not* Java. 
JavaScript cannot be downloaded, it is built into the browser.

Please take a screenshot of this yellow bar you are talking about, I can't say 
I've ever seen it before. Also, does it say "Java" or "JavaScript"?

Please write out the entire error message as you see it, and not a paraphrase.

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