Hi. For the past year or so, I have long been living with "buggy" linux and it doesn't matter which distro I choose. The problems crop up when I try to run a java application. Specifically, pogo.com card games.
The way the game works is that you choose a room to play in. Then a small room window comes up after about 30 sec. Then you choose a table, and wait another 30 sec or so. After that, you're at the table and ready to start the game with your opponents.

After playing it this way 2-3 times, that last window before playing the game will freeze up. After that, I had to close out both game windows and reboot.

I soon discovered, however, that I can get the game to re-load quicker than doing a reboot. If I clear the firefox cache and then reload the room window, I can enter the game without it hanging up.

But this fix only works temporarily; and I've tried increasing my cache size but this didn't help the situation.

Is this a problem with sun-java-6, the linux os, firefox, or pogo?

Is there any way to revert to an earlier version of java or linux or firefox that might fix the problem?
I never had the problem until about a year ago. The problem only occurs in linux, my windows OS (windows 7) has no such issues.

Thanks for the help.

Have you tried using openjdk instead of sun java? All my java problems went away after making the switch.

Evo2.

Hello. How do I enable openJDK? The only firefox plugin I have installed is sun java. I guess I need the openJDK plugin somehow.

You need to install it first.

Evo2.

It's already installed but there's no plugin anywhere to be found.

Here's what synaptic said I have installed now:

openjdk-6-jre-lib
openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless
icedtea-6-jre-cacao

Then restart your browser.

Evo2.

Still no luck here. When I try to install I get the following output:
sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package icedtea-plugin 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 'icedtea-plugin' has no installation candidate

Also, I was able to add to my sources.list file so that icedtea plugin is now visible in synaptic. But when I try to install from synaptic I get this:

The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. Please make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences.
icedtea6-plugin:
Depends: openjdk-6-jre (=6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1) but 6b18-1.8.7-5 is to be installed

thanks for the help.

Ok, sorry I'm working on a real Debian system... seems packages are missing in LMDE. You should probably file a bug report to LMDE.

Evo2.

icedtea6-plugin isn't in Wheezy/Testing repo it is in sid

http://packages.debian.org/search?ke...searchon=names

Can i somehow add the sid repo to my /etc/apt/sources.list ?

Sure just copy the Testing line and change testing/wheezy to sid, run apt-get update, then you should be able to do apt-get install icedtea6-plugin.

Although the problem sounds more like a cookie issue than a java problem, openjdk and sun/oracle-java work exactly the same.

Hello. Thanks for the help.

It seems the various Firefox add-ons were consuming my memory. So I disabled 3 of them and now things are running super. So I guess the lesson is to be careful with installing more than a couple of addons. I had about 5: LastPass, AdBlock Plus, StumbleUpon, TabUtilities Lite, and XMarks. I have now disabled all of them except for LastPass and XMarks, and no more pogo crashes!