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[Carsten Agger <agger@xxxx>]

søn, 06 06 2010 kl. 12:11 +0100, skrev Andrew Woodhead:
> try:
> 
> 
> cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins; sudo ln
> -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> 
> 
> Should be ok.
> 
> 

Thanks, but unfortunately that didn't work - still doesn't show up in
about:plugins either

will investigate further and maybe check out Midori (thanks Richard).

And BTW:

>I could argue that using Google software is like using Windows - a sell
>out to the corporates - but i do not want a flame war thank you!

No flames :-)
Just one thing: Chromium is free software. That way, it's not a bigger
problem than a lot of other things, and people can always fork it if
they want. If Microsoft were to release Windows under the GPL, I
wouldn't have a problem with Windows either :-)

> Personally I use the .bin file from www.java.com as all the systems
> I'd need java on are 64bit. I then symlink the libnpjp2.so to the
> plugins folder and it works.
> 
> 
> Java and flash n Ubuntu all run at 32bit via a 64bit wrapper which I
> think is horribly convoluted and ungraceful despite there being 64bit
> native plugins available.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Carsten Agger <agger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         I'm using Lubuntu 10.04 on my netbook, an Acer Aspire 110 with
>         512 megs of
>         RAM, and it's generally a pleasure.
>         
>         I have one problem, though - the Java plugin seems not to be
>         working in
>         Chromium. I want to play Runescape, the MMORPG at
>         www.runescape.com.
>         
>         What I'm getting is basically a blank (rather, black, the HTML
>         background)
>         page where the Java applet should be.
>         
>         I installed Java and the plugin by installing the
>         "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package which pulled the openjdk
>         and icedtea
>         versions of Java and plugin. This works FINE in Firefox on
>         Ubuntu 10.04 on
>         my other computer.
>         
>         Anybody knows what's wrong or how to put it right? :-) Is
>         there a problem
>         with Java and Chromium? Maybe not, though - epiphany seems to
>         give the
>         same result (I won't install Firefox).
>         
>         br
>         Carsten
>         
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