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it uses a java app within the browser to launch the game.
when i get the game page loaded, firefox tells me i'm missing a plugin. so i click the "install missing plugins" only to find out that there aren't any for me to download, and i have to do it manually.
a bit of an update.. i found out that i was creating the links with bad names, as the links in the mozilla/plugins file were broken.
i've fixed that issue, and now the game doesn't ask for a plugin.. but when it gets to that spot, it still doesn't load the java app, and firfox tells me that the page is loaded... it's like it's ignoring the game entirely. what am i missing?
I think if you're running Firefox 64 bit then the java plugin won't work. To fix this you can install Firefox 32 bit. You can find it in the package updater.
ok, so when i tried to go to the site again i noticed this file in my home folder:
plugin_stack.trace
i open it with gedit, and it says this:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.deploy.config.Config
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.doit(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.start(Unknown Source)
again, thanks for the advice, but i've already done all of that (refer to my opening post).
i'm quite certain that i've done so properly.. as i've been through that instruction list at least a dozen times.
i have jre1.6.0_02 installed. (at least as far as http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm has instructed me to do so)
i have a link from the java library in the mozilla/plugins file.
quite certian i'm not using an x64 system, so there is no need to get 32bit forefox.
and i still have the issue of the game not working.
wtf am i doing wrong?
(post 5 might be of interest)
yea.. bad idea on that one. firefox closed itself after x amount of time with the gcc version... i tried "firefox" in the terminal to see if it would give me any feed back.. it didn't.
so i tried to use konqueror to get to the site, as i've heard that it reads plugins from the mozilla/plugins folder. it did the exact same thing firefox did with the plugin i had in place before all of this; said the page was loaded and all i had was a black screen where the game should have been.
so i switched back to the ns7 version (not ns7-gcc29)
That reinforces my opinion that the problem is in your links to the Mozilla plugin. Konqueror does not use a plugin for Java. As long as Java is correctly installed, Konqueror works.
Your success with Konqueror proves that your Java installation is fine. The only thing left blocking FF is the link to the plugin.
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