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hello,

I'm using ubuntu with firefox and the icedTea plugin for java applets.
I'd like to use yahoo games on firefox. The icedTea plugin seems to work since the room is launched, and can be interacted with. But when I open a table, a pop up window opens, which contains an advertisement on the top window, but the bottom part, where the game should be displayed, remains gray. I have set firefox to allow popups.
What could cause this issue ? Is it possible that icedTea wouldn't work on popups?

I face the same issue with google chrome.

Thanks for any advice.

OpenJDK and the IcedTea plugin aren't up to par with the release versions of Oracle's Java client. Try installing sun-java6-plugin and removing the icedtea plugin, and see if it makes a difference.

I had the same problem, chrome kept saying there was another update, but has to be done manually.
After following the limited instructions couldn't use keyboard in yahoo games.
In debian after squeeze sun-java is not available unless you do it thru an distro upgrade & it doesn't get the updates.

How do I install the sun-java6-plugin? It's not in my repository. Besides, doesn't the java6 plugin use the 6.24 version of Java, which has security risks ?

All I have is sun-java6-jre. But that's not it, is it?

If sun-java6-jre available the other is available also a little farther down on the list.

Well in my case it's not
me@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package sun-java6-plugin
me@mypc:~$

You should have synaptic package manager check in there, if you have done upgrades it may have gotten phsed out.

I'm sorry I don't understand. What command or series of commands am I supposed to type in order to install sun-java6-plugin?

If you have graphical desktop open up "synaptic package manager" or "Package Manager", which should be under Applications Menu & see if it's listed.

No it's not listed there either.

And sun-java6-jre is not available either in the synaptics package manager (the search "sun-java6" returns 0 results). I made a mistake when I mentioned I could install it. I was mislead by the fact that, when I press tab twice, it appears in the list of propositions. But if I actually try to install it, I get an error.

me@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-
sun-java6-doc sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre
me@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-jre is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jre has no installation candidate
me@mypc:~$

To get sun-java on my system I had to downgrade to squeeze

What is "squeeze" ?

This is killing me... is it not possible to have java sun and its firefox plugin on ubuntu anymore ?? From what I've read, I gather that the license was modified so that the ubuntu OS couldn't ship it by default, but this shouldn't mean that it's not possible to install it manually, because it worked before, so there's no reason it wouldn't work now...

I'm just lost, can you please help me ?

On this page, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java, it says how to install Java sun briefly, but not how to install the firefox plugin, which is what I need most.
So how to install it??

sun denied debian the licensing agreement, I don't know about ubuntu as it is .deb based.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/j...user-machines/
debian squeeze