1

After an upgrade to Trusty Tahr (14.04), it seems Java has ceased to work in several browsers (tested on Firefox, Chromium, and Chrome).

ubuntu-restricted-extras is installed, Oracle-Java was installed using the webupd8 PPA, and I also tried applying a fix to an update-alternatives error, and installing IcedTea, to no avail.

How to activate Java plugins in the browsers?

Improve this question
6
  • 1
    Regarding Chromium, see here. Does installing OpenJDK 7 work for Firefox?
    – saiarcot895
    Apr 22, 2014 at 15:37
  • @user68186 - icedtea is installed.
    – Eliran Malka
    Apr 22, 2014 at 16:28
  • @saiarcot895 - Does that mean that no Java plugin is available for chromium (or chrome) at the moment ?! Is everyone down at Google just ignoring that humongous elephant in the room?
    – Eliran Malka
    Apr 22, 2014 at 17:06
  • 2
    @EliranMalka: Java is outside of their control, and they have their reasons for deprecating NPAPI (security, permissions, etc.). As far as I know, the only way to use Java in the browser is to re-enable NPAPI (for the time being) by recompiling Chromium.
    – saiarcot895
    Apr 22, 2014 at 17:11
  • 1
    I've got the same problem but recompiling Chromium is definitely not an option. It takes a horrendous amount of disk space and time. Will probably just use Firefox for the rare sites that require Java.
    – Daniel
    Apr 27, 2014 at 9:37

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
-1

Check the symbolic link in your browser's plugin directory and make sure it's pointing to the correct installation of Java (eg /usr/local/java/jre1.x.xxx/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so)

Improve this answer
2
  • no reason for it to change - checked to be libnpjp2.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.
    – Eliran Malka
    Apr 22, 2014 at 16:55
  • I don't think this should get downvotes becuase it is what Oracle suggests. However I tried this too, and it did not work for me.
    – Will Sewell
    Aug 19, 2014 at 10:31

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .