Re: Strange applet behaviour on Windows XP
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.
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