I installed(sudo apt-get install) icedtea-7-plugin (and all its dependencies) and have closed firefox and reopened it; and the plugin still does not appear in http//about:plugins
Is there a fix for this? Output of: java -version
java version "1.7.0_21"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.9) (7u21-2.3.9-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
Output of: update-java-alternatives -l
java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 1071 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64
java-gcj-4.7 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj-4.7