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[Christopher <soft@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Still a problem; both partitions now running Lucid. I won't update my
desktop (Karmic) until this is resolved.

Can a regression to FF 3.5 be made available?

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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/