Installing Chrome Java Plugin

Question

I've been trying to install the Java plugin for Chrome for a couple hours now, and I figured it was time to ask people with more experience. I can't seem to get it working. My current Java version is the 64-bit OpenJDK 1.6.0_24. I tried installing the IcedTea plugin to no avail. I have Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed at the moment.

When I tried testing if java was enabled in Chrome, any website with a Java applet would not load (when I disabled the plugin, they loaded, but not the applet).

I followed the instructions from here: http://technonstop.com/install-java-plugin-ubuntu-linux

which said to create this script and run it:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0
MOZILLA_HOME=~/.mozilla
mkdir $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins
ln -s $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins

Note: You may need to change the value of JAVA_HOME so that it correctly points to your installation of the JDK. 64-bit users will need to change the final line to:

ln -s $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins

but this did not work as well.

I just test it in Firefox and it's working. Still nothing for Chrome

Answer 1

Alternate install Java for Chrome, can also install icedtea:

 sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Answer 2

I have recently hit by the same bug. If you look in your ~/.xsession-errors file, you possibly see:

/build/buildd/icedtea-web-1.2/build/../plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:2072: thread 0x7f08d1365470: Error: Invalid plugin function table.

The bug report is Plugin fails to load in Chrome. A proposed update was released for the icedtea-6-plugin package and confirmed to work. This should land in a few days for all users.

Meanwhile, you can use a different browser as others suggested, Firefox works here.

Answer 3

The best solution I found, (none of these suggestions worked for me), is as followings: First install Icedtead pluging by:

• 1) sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Then in your chrome browser go to:

• 2) chrome-> Settings-> Show Advanced Settings-> Privacy then click on Content Settings -> Plug-ins then click on Disable Individual Plug-in
• 3) Disable both "IceTea-Web Plugin" and "Java(TM)"
• 4) Restart the browser.
• 5) chrome-> Settings-> Show Advanced Settings-> Privacy then click on Content Settings -> Plug-ins then click on Disable Individual Plug-in
• 6) Enable only "IceTea-Web Plugin"
• 7) Enjoy !

Answer 4

I have had the same problem. This problem frequently occurs with chromium in 64-bit. The best way to get rid of it is to use firefox instead of it.

Answer 5

The solution for me was to run the following command in the terminal.

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Creating the symbolic link didn't work for chrome in my case, I don't know why.