Hey, Guys
I upgraded my laptop today to opensuse 11 and everything seems good. However I still do not get java-plugin with firefox work with some java applet website. I am using 64bit system here.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
What Java is eventually all going to be released under the GPL, only portions of it are now. There is no official 64-bit plugin right now. Either you use a 32-bit Firefox in 64-bit Linux, or I believe you use Iced Tea, which provides a 64-bit java plugin.
Java/How To use Java with Firefox on 64-bit openSuSE 10.3 - openSUSE
Iced Tea does not seem to work either. It’s been something I have been struggling with for ages.
The best way around it I have found is to download Firefox from the Mozilla site, unzip it to your home directory and run it from there, you can run 2 versions of Firefox if you want! You can put any plug-ins you require into the /home/username/firefox/plugins directory and everything works fine.
I guess it’s something we just have to wait for, complete 64 compatablity with Java plugins.
Regards Peter.
pmccrackan wrote:
> Iced Tea does not seem to work either. It’s been something I have been
> struggling with for ages.
Actually it’s OpenJDK now.
> The best way around it I have found is to download Firefox from the
> Mozilla site, unzip it to your home directory and run it from there,
> you can run 2 versions of Firefox if you want! You can put any plug-ins
> you require into the /home/username/firefox/plugins directory and
> everything works fine.
> I guess it’s something we just have to wait for, complete 64
> compatablity with Java plugins.
OpenJDK works with 64bit firefox in 10.3… but only as far as
OpenJDK works… which is NOT with every Java applet out there.
But still… it does work for some.
> Regards Peter.
>
>
I tried both icetea and openjdk in openSUSE 11, none of them work with firefox 3 beta5. So I guess the best way is to use pmccrackan’s way so far.
Yea I’m using Open JDK right now and most applets run fine, It’s really nice and seems to run way better than real java. Heck, even Frostwire now works, which is great. Now if I could only get Gnash to work I would have only MP3 support to ditch.
64 bit Packages exist for Openjdk and Icedtea, Openjdk is the preferred one apparently. I have tried both packages on RC2 (which has updated itself to Gold by the way :)) and not had any success with running the test applet an the Java web site.
Regards Peter
Don’t use the test applet I never had much joy on that either it confirms nothing test on sites with java applets.
I have to agree when using icedtea it doesn’t work on all but does work on most, still think easiest is 32bit ff. Though I’m intrigued last time I looked I couldn’t find it for suse.
I tried both openJDK & icetea in openSUSE 11 rc2, none of them working with the java enabled site. So I just installed 32bit.
chinese ys wrote:
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> Hey, Guys
>
> I upgraded my laptop today to opensuse 11 and everything seems good.
> However I still do not get java-plugin with firefox work with some java
> applet website. I am using 64bit system here.
>
> Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>
>
when you need to run a java applet use konqueror
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Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Gnome 2.20, Opera 9.x weekly
There is also the nspluginwrapper, which is what I normally use for java and flash, but I rarely need java. I only recommended the other two because I heard they work natively at 64-bit. nspluginwrapper allows 32-bit plugins to work in 64-bit.
nspluginwrapper won’t help you with Java there is no 64bit plugin.
I agree Konq does an OK job but sometimes goes funky. I do normally use 32bit but have been using icedtea I would say it works on 70%. I tested it on a fair few sites when I first installed it but not a real java user so does for me.
Far from a solution but a compromise if it’s not a real concern or have sites where it doesn’t work on that you frequent.
I don’t think you understand. nspluginwrapper uses 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit firefox. I’ve used nspluginwrapper with the 32-bit java plugin myself.
Unfortunately the applet fails on the charting applet at a share trading web site I use, which is the only reason I need the java plugin to work. Otherwise I could live without it.
How does it work with nspluginwrapper, I have tried and it fails. It does not load automatically like the flash plugin, doing it manually does this:
linux-ztra:/home/peterm/Desktop # cd /usr/lib/jre1.6.0_10/plugin
linux-ztra:/usr/lib/jre1.6.0_10/plugin # nspluginwrapper -i libjavaplugin_oji.so
nspluginwrapper: libjavaplugin_oji.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin
Or have I got the syntax / something wrong? Although that command works for the flash plugin, I can remove and reinstall it.
Regards Peter.
never mind
Hey
I also have the same issue. My Java seems to be working but only in a couple of places. For example when I try to access some Jave-enabled web sites the browser just stalls. What seems to be the problem?
You have installed the 32 bit version of what: of the OS or the Firefox?