Re: firefox java plugins

[Adam Huffman <bloch verdurin com>]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Will Woods wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 08:09 -0700, David wrote:
> > I'm using firefox in f8t3 and trying to view web pages with java.
> > I was hoping the plugin would be installed by default or install easily, 
> > but I'm having problems. Is the new icedtea stuff supposed to enable 
> > java support in firefox, or do I still need to install something from Sun? 
> > If I have to install Sun stuff, is there a documented procedure for f8? 
> 
> You'll need the icedtea browser plugin - the package is called
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin. It should be installed by default. Check
> "about:plugins" in Firefox to confirm.
> 
> Note that it's not 100% compatible with the Sun plugin yet, but it's
> close. One big missing thing appears to be sound - see here for details:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> 
> Here's an example java game that works: 
> http://www.lalena.com/games/Pyramid.aspx
> 

Is this expected to work on rawhide?  I've installed the icedtea browser
plugin but it doesn't appear in Firefox's list and that example game
doesn't work.


Adam