I'd like to test my broadband speed but the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre. I don't seem to be able to enable it though via Firefox (or Chrome for that matter.) Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Help.
Bev.
On 26/05/2011 11:09, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I'd like to test my broadband speed but the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre. I don't seem to be able to enable it though via Firefox (or Chrome for that matter.) Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Help.
Bev.
Do you have NoScript intalled? If so, you need to explicitly allow that site to run javascript (assuming you mean javascript and not java).
Cheers, Laurie.
At Thu, 26 May 2011 11:52:51 +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 26/05/2011 11:09, Bev Nicolson wrote:
the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre.
Do you have NoScript intalled? If so, you need to explicitly allow that site to run javascript (assuming you mean javascript and not java).
Laurie, why are you assuming that?
Bev, try visiting about:plugins (that is, type about:plugins into FF's location bar) and see if the Java plugin is mentioned.
You can try installing sun-java6-plugin (as Brett said) which pulls in all the required dependencies. Alternatively, you can try installing icedtea-plugin which uses OpenJDK rather than Sun's JRE.
Best, Richard
On 26 May 14:32, Richard Lewis wrote:
At Thu, 26 May 2011 11:52:51 +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 26/05/2011 11:09, Bev Nicolson wrote:
the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre.
Do you have NoScript intalled? If so, you need to explicitly allow that site to run javascript (assuming you mean javascript and not java).
Laurie, why are you assuming that?
Bev, try visiting about:plugins (that is, type about:plugins into FF's location bar) and see if the Java plugin is mentioned.
You can try installing sun-java6-plugin (as Brett said) which pulls in all the required dependencies. Alternatively, you can try installing icedtea-plugin which uses OpenJDK rather than Sun's JRE.
And tends not to work :) (been there, done that, got that t-shirt, cried, gave up)
On 26 May 2011 14:32, Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
You can try installing sun-java6-plugin (as Brett said) which pulls in all the required dependencies. Alternatively, you can try installing icedtea-plugin which uses OpenJDK rather than Sun's JRE.
I would double that, the 'icedtea' packages always work for me over Sun's packages when it comes to using Java in a browser.
Hmm. Various other plug-ins but nothing about java. Will try Brett's suggestion. But after I've posted about something else. (Having a bit of a day of it.)
Bev, try visiting about:plugins (that is, type about:plugins into FF's location bar) and see if the Java plugin is mentioned.
You can try installing sun-java6-plugin (as Brett said) which pulls in all the required dependencies. Alternatively, you can try installing icedtea-plugin which uses OpenJDK rather than Sun's JRE.
Brett's suggestion worked. Only in Chrome, but there we are. It works in one browser so that's OK.
Bev.
On 26 May 2011 16:10, Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. Various other plug-ins but nothing about java. Will try Brett's suggestion.
On 26 May 11:09, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I'd like to test my broadband speed but the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre. I don't seem to be able to enable it though via Firefox (or Chrome for that matter.) Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Help.
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
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