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Re: Java/IcedTea not working in Chromium

 

Sure but the plugin is proprietary and the open versions do not have the
full range of stuff which the Adobe one does.

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:43 PM, paolo liut <paolo.liut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it possible to use adobe flash player or other open flash player if I
> have Lubuntu and Chromium?
>
> Paolo
>
> 2010/6/6 Richard Austin <richaustin1961@xxxxxxx>
>
>>  Carsten
>>
>> I can understand not installing Firefox but Chromium maybe isn't the
>> answer until it's completed? 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!
>>
>> I'd suggest giving Midori a try - it's very quick and light on resources.
>> It runs fine on my Samsung 6000 with 256 ram and Lubuntu. Link for it is:
>> http://www.twotoasts.de
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/10 12:11, Andrew Woodhead wrote:
>>
>> try:
>>
>>  cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins; sudo ln -s
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so
>>
>>  Should be ok.
>>
>>  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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