Re: Strange applet behaviour on Windows XP

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:40:24 -0800

Message-ID:

<HaI_i.1935$L86.1216@newsfe16.lga>

Lew wrote:

The problem here is due to how Firefox relates to Fedora, not the 64b
issue.

Nigel Wade wrote:

Really?

As best I can tell. I'm actually baffled by it.

I don't use Fedora, but I have two Sun servers here running 64bit
RHEL4. I have
installed 32bit Firefox (direct from Mozilla, not a RH package) and
can use the
Sun Java plugin to run applets. The first thing I do with RHEL (and
Fedora when
I used to run it) is throw away all the gcj and other non-Sun "java"
which RH
bundle. I don't mess with "alternatives", jpackage and all that
nonsense as I
don't consider there to be any alternative to the Sun Java platform.

I use 'alternatives' because I have 32b Java, 64b Java, Java 5 and an
IBM Java on the same machine. It also helps during upgrades that I can
keep one version back just in case.

I just don't know how to get Firefox to recognize the plugin. I've
followed various HOW-TOs to no avail.

Eh, bien, I just use Windows when I want to view applets.

Lew, are you running F8? Did you do the Xinerama fix? Are you using FF
2.0.0.9?

If all this has been discussed please disregard this post.

--

Knute Johnson
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