java-plugin not working in F8

[Valent Turkovic]

On Nov 12, 2007 10:17 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 12:57 PM, Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
>
> > Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:44 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I installed java plugin via 'yum install java-plugin' and firefox
> > >> still complains that plugin is not installed...
> > >> I'm running 32bit fedora (I saw previous mails regarding F7 on 64bit).
> > >
> > > Just install the java-icedtea-plugin (just look for icedtea) from Fedora
> > > and it will work just fine.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, maybe you need to create a link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> > > as well?
> >
> > I'm running F8/x86_64 and haven't manually installed any Java stuff yet,
> > just whatever might have been installed by anaconda by default.  Up
> > until now I hadn't visited any web pages with Java on them.
> >
> > A lot of people have been having problems with Java it seems, and so I
> > decided to try to get it to work myself.  I google searched for a "Java
> > test", went to the Sun page, and it just worked automatically already,
> > presumeably with iced-tea, which I assume was installed for me already
> > by anaconda.  I went to a variety of other Java websites to test it out
> > and have had no problems at all so far.  All Java sites work in firefox
> > for me automatically.
> >
> > As mentioned above, I haven't had to install anything, configure
> > anything, or do anything manual for this to work, it just works out of
> > the box on x86_64, at least for me.
> >
> > I can only assume that the people having the problems either:
> >
> > 1) Are coming from an upgrade of a previous OS release
> > or
> > 2) Have Sun, IBM, or some other Java installed already, or are trying to
> > install some other Java
> > 3) Have upgraded and didn't get iced-tea by default perhaps.
> >
> > Anyhow, worst case scenario -> do a fresh OS install and Java seems to
> > work in firefox right out of the box.  ;o)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike A. Harris
> >
> > Come and join us on the #fedora8 IRC help forum on irc.freenode.net
> >
> >
>
> Just an update; I installed a fresh Fedora 8 from Gnome Live CD and by
> default java doesn't work.
>
> I have installed latest updates and I will now install java-plugin and
> test it again and give you feedback.
>

The bug is still present ie. after installing java-plugin java still
doesn't work.

After running 'mozilla-plugin-config' java works in Firefox.


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