-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 15.05.2010 09:14, schrieb Stan Goodman:

At 08:55:29 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, Werner Flamme <werner.flamme@email.de> wrote:

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Am 10.05.2010 14:53, schrieb Stan Goodman:

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The machine is running oS v11.1 x86_64.

After updating Firefox from v3.5.9 to 3.6.3 I find that the browser no longer supports Java, that there is no longer a button in the Preferences for enabling Java, and there is no Java plugin in About:plugins.

About plugins refers me to mozilla.org, where I am advised to use the (non-existent) button to enable Java. This has to be a bug. As Java is important to me, my workaround is to use Konqueror, which is smart enough not to require a plugin for the purpose; Opera doesn't work either.

Is there a way to get Firefox to see Java?

Yes, I had that problem too and openend a bug because of this...

Many thanks for you interest, but that problem is gone. The Firefox in v11.1 is seeing Java applets very happily with update 20. That's very important to me, because my own website depends upon Java, and I wouldn't be able to maintain it without it.

In any case, I'm moving to oS v11.2 now, and have already done so on another machine. I see that there is no such bug in 11.2.

Thanks again.

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As it is stated on <http://java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml>, you need an up-to-date Java Package for FF 3.6.x.

After you installed it (for example the java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u20-0.1.1.x86_64 from openSUSE's update channel) use the command (on the command line) "update-alternatives --config javaplugin" to choose the Java plugin you want to use (by default, openSUSE installs another plugin, too).

After switching to the u20 Java Plugin, everything works as before. Or even better...

Do not get into a software hassle by installing software packages from other sites as long as they are provided by openSUSE! Especially software installed without the notice of rpm (e.g. a Java package from java.sun.com) is never maintained by the package manager, and you will never get updates for them!

HTH Werner

This is not a bug, but a change in FFs architecture. It was a problem in oS 11.2, because I installed FF 3.6.x (some weeks ago) and ran into this. The problem was the openjdk Java plugin, what was too old to support FFs new API. I did not know about "update-alternatives --config javaplugin", but knew only "update-alternatives --config java", and this did not change the link for the java plugin. So only de-installation of openjdk seems to help. The packagers took care of the problem and provided a new version of the openjdk plugin, that works with FF 3.6.x now. Regards, Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL7lJLAAoJEOfJ7bNoiiCNp4sIAKRXPf1RI/HwuFwjmpU/82nH 1aewAw0+vEOssDZ0cRPDFoZ3uvDCJcmuvijS0r2LKOt8J+gr2UGaf5Nb75xf2K2a B/4/6s3cAoJdFOMl5OzHOWAlaMhmmKgr50ifBz2YNnsRHPg00Ef0HiZd5bVtkbie 0Ar5NCKzhefzu/iDSzz5T7Gi++C8vjzpiRZ7KSRKjdtwaksDAtsY08dr4w9O2eyj +ZPBD3A1eG0XmTrowyw53z/QOx0hoyjoZAdM188r4HLikNzskiFl3NqiJuRVucSC HCOcnuQLNHthTtFNaTKjB3DaJBnRl3BOFxqLrbxA21f3AEhNxw04eh8wquC9Le4= =CyeX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org