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[Christopher <soft@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I removed the java plugin, but it didn't make any difference. Here's my
About:plugins file.

** Attachment added: "About Plugins.html"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40959604/About%20Plugins.html

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icedtea6-plugin not compatible with Firefox 3.6+
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496097
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Starting in Firefox 3.6, Mozilla foundation will drop support for OJI (Open Java Virtual Machine Integration) that icedtea6-plugin uses, and will only support the standard NPAPI and NPRuntime interfaces.

This is already working in openjdk mercurial as described here:

http://dbhole.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/icedtea-java-plugin-with-chromium-and-firefox-3-6a1/