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?