Java applets do no longer run in Firefox

suprafluid

Hello all,

Sorry, I am bit a newbie to all this gentoo stuff. So far I had a stable system and no problems getting installed all that I needed.

Now recently I did a "emerge -avDNut world" and after that, Firefox (3.6.17) does no longer run java applets. There just a gray box where the applet should run... Now I remerged java and firefox again.. but nothing changed.

java-check-environment ends with "* Java environment is sane. Congratulations!"

Active jre (java-config -f) is "sun-jre-bin-1.6"

Any ideas waht I could do here?

Kind regards,
tobias
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massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

When you enter 'about:plugins' in Firefox' address bar you get a list of installed plugins - can you find java there?
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suprafluid · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:56 am Post subject:

Hi! This gives me:

application/x-java-vm IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet IcedTea class,jar Yes

IcedTea ist also installed

The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1) IcedTea6-bin 1.10.3 [icedtea6-bin]
2) Sun JDK 1.6.0.26 [sun-jdk-1.6]
*) Sun JRE 1.6.0.26 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]

suprafluid · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:55 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

Seems Firefox runs into the follwong problem, as soon as a java applet starts...

Elv13 · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:51 am Post subject:

Remove the icedtea plugin (.so) from the netscape/mozilla//firefox plugin directory (usually in /usr/lib/{netscape,mozilla,firefox} directory

suprafluid · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:15 am Post subject:

Hi!

In the firefox plugin directory, there's only a symlink to:

/usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/icedtea6-javaplugin.so

and this is also just a link pointing to:

/opt/icedtea6-web-bin/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so

I deleted that link and now the browser says that it does not find a plugin for java applets. What should the deletion of this do?

I will re-emerge firefox now and see what it does.

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

Did you set java-nsplugin in eselect?

suprafluid · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:40 pm Post subject:

hi
yes that is set. I get this error message when starting an applet:

suprafluid · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject: got it

got it: icedtea6 does not work properly because it messes up with gtk+ 2 and 3 (3 is not installed on my system)

I changed the default java browser plugin to sun-jdk-1.6