On 18/05/16 12:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 05/17/2016 06:26 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 09/05/16 17:36, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 05/08/2016 05:36 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> I am currently using Firefox 49.0a1 on both Linux and Windows and
>>> on both systems Firefox will not activate Java, this has been the case
>>> for several versions of Firefox. I have to java plugin in the
>>> appropriate mozilla directories, but Firefox will still not use it. I
>>> have also checked about:config and there appears to be no java entries
>>> in there whatsoever.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know any way to activate Java in these versions of
>>> Firefox?
>>>
>> You shouldn't have to do any manual linking or copying. Install the
>> icedtea-web package and it should just work. I've been using it for a
>> long time.
> I have installed the icedtea-web package and have placed a link from the
> firefox plugins directory to where the icedtea-web package installs the
> plugin. This needs to be done because the upstream version of 64 bit
> firefox is compatible with Ubuntu and not with Fedora.
>
Why aren't you just using the Fedora packaged Firefox?
Because I wanted to use
the same version of Firefox across all of the
operating systems I use. I use the nightly version of Firefox.
regards,
Steve